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Introduction to Rock Crushers

Posted by ELRUS Aggregate Systems on Wed,Sep 19,2012 @ 02:54 PM

A rock crusher is a piece of equipment designed to take large rocks as input (Feed) and produce small rocks, gravel or rock dust as output. They are used to produce rock fill material for such uses as landscaping and erosion control.

ELRUS Jaw Crusher

They are typically very large, very loud, and produce a considerable quantity of dust, which can be controlled with sound panels, water curtains, enclosures and rubber mounted over the steel, but often are not for economic reasons. Most installations are therefore in rural areas, but environmental considerations and regulations are reducing this location advantage.

There are various types of rock crushers used in the aggregate industry including impact and roll crushers, but the most commonly used today are jaw and cone crushers. Jaw crushers normally take the mined material and reduce it to a manageable size -say 10 to 4 inches. Cone crushers take the material from a jaw crusher and further reduce the material size. Jaw crushers offer reduction ratios of up to about 6:1, while cone crushers can reduce material size up to a maximum of 8:1 ratio. The finer the crushing, the smaller the reduction ratio.

As a basic rule, jaw crushers are the primary crusher taking the mined aggregate and reducing it to a size that a cone crusher can accept. Cone crushers tend to be the secondary crusher, and usually produce material of a size needed for many industry applications such as the aggregates needed for asphalt and concrete production.

For the most part advances in crusher design have moved slowly. Jaw crushers have remained virtually unchanged for sixty years. More reliability and higher production have been added to basic cone crusher designs that have also remained largely unchanged. For instance, a 48 inch cone crusher manufactured in 1960 may be able to produce 170 tons/hr of crushed rock, whereas the same size cone manufactured today may produce 300 tons/hr. These production improvements come from a number of engineering changes, but a large part is due to better crushing chamber design.

The largest advance in cone crusher reliability has been seen in the use of hydraulics to protect crushers from damage due to uncrushable objects entering the crushing chamber. Foreign objects, such as steel, have been known to cost thousands of dollars of damage to a cone crusher, and more costs in lost production. The advance of hydraulic relief systems has greatly reduced downtime and improved the life of these machines.

ELRUS manufactures jaw crushers mounted on chassis' as well as Sandvik cone crushers on ELRUS Chassis'.

Download our Jaw and Cone Plant Brochures fro the Resources Page.

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Topics: Gravel Crusher, Crushing and Screening, Portable Crushing and Screening, Primary Jaw Crusher, Cone crusher, Sandvik, Hydrocone Crusher


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