Ball Mill / Pebble Mill/ Tumbling Mill Pharmaceutical Engineering B ...
reduce abrasion. The balls may be of metal, porcelain or stones (pebble mill). The ball size being dependent on the size of the feed and the diameter of the mill. Usually a mill 1 m in diameter will use balls of 75 mm, in practice, the balls are damaged, so that a range of sizes from 20 mm upwards are used.