Laboratory crushing equipment encompasses metallic cast-iron or steel structures deployed to crush material, core samples, and aggregates. Crushers are grinders that reduce the size of solid materials. They are designed to crush granite, ores, cement, glass, silicon, construction materials, and ceramics. Special jaw crushers can work on tungsten carbide, stainless steel, zirconium oxide, and manganese steel. They work best on hard, firm materials, not sticky ones.
Laboratory crushers can work on sturdy, hard, brittle, and medium-hard materials. Crushers employ mechanical grinding to crush laboratory materials into a fine size as desired. Such jaw crushers have use in several applications such as agriculture, life sciences, and pharmaceuticals. Ceramic, building materials, metallurgic, and mining industries harness laboratory crushers.
How does laboratory crushing equipment work?
Laboratory jaw crushers have a grinding chamber wherein material is fed through a feed hopper. The jaw plates work to push the material in a grinding motion to achieve the desired size. These crushers could produce from 100 to 400 kg of material every hour. Fineness can range from 6 mm to 0.5 mm. Laboratory crushing equipment comes with anti-splash hoppers and built-in overload protectors.
Laboratory crushers are available in single-toggle and double-toggle options. The single toggle laboratory crushers are built such that one jaw plate moves against the other. The materials are crushed when ground against the fixed plate. Double toggle laboratory crushers work with both crusher jaws. The rotary motion deployed in single toggle crushers is not used. Instead, the material is crushed between both jaw plates.
The process starts with crushing wherein the size of the material gets reduced. Grinding serves to free the materials to the appropriate size and surface area. Laboratory crushers reduce materials to powder or fine dust.
Uses of laboratory crushing equipment
- Crushing reduces samples for molecular analysis. This is particularly useful in XRF analysis where substances need to be reduced to micro-scale.
- Mining
- Construction and demolition
- Rock quarries
- Water conservancy
- Road and railway construction
