Sample assessment
The sample was a liquid slurry of unspecified formulation. The record provides a milling outcome but no solids concentration or initial distribution.
Analyst consideration: The steel-contact slurry route should be selected with both suspension flow and allowable contact contamination in mind. A mesh result alone does not describe the chemical compatibility or stability of the formulation.
Recorded objective
Meet the recorded 300-mesh requirement.
Equipment and selection
The machine entry is XQM. TENCAN Vertical Planetary Ball Mill is associated at the recorded series level. No exact housing variant is inferred from jar capacity or an abbreviated machine label.
Test setup
| Jar entry | Steel 500 |
|---|---|
| Media entry | Steel 700 |
| Media-charge notation | 5-200/8-100/10-100/12-200/15-100 |
| Sample-load entry | 120 (unit not stated) |
| Controller speed setting | 550 |
| Cycle notation | 5/1 |
Unlabelled jar, media and load numbers remain source notation, not assigned units. Controller settings are not certified rpm. The cycle notation has no independently stated timing unit or reversing definition.
Recorded procedure and results
The setup lists a steel jar and steel balls, with several media-size entries. After three hours the procedure states that the sample could meet the requirement and pass 300 mesh. The result is explicitly marked accepted. No separate percentile or sieve-retained fraction is given.
Interpretation
The evidence supports the reported three-hour mesh acceptance for this slurry. It does not identify an equivalent micrometre cutoff, an all-particle maximum or the contribution of any one ball size.
Practical precautions
Specify sieve standard and slurry preparation for repeat testing. Record solids concentration and media loading so that another batch can be compared on a defined basis.
TENCAN alternatives to evaluate
TENCAN Omnidirectional Planetary Ball Mill. An omnidirectional setup can be evaluated for slurry redistribution. Compare it at three hours with the same composition, steel-contact requirements and 300-mesh acceptance procedure. QXQM changes the orientation of the slurry bed relative to gravity, making redistribution the specific comparison variable rather than simply substituting a different nominal mill size. This is an untested comparison proposal, not a result of this trial.
Association follows the explicit XQM source entry; only recorded tested series/configurations are related. No jar-volume inference.
About this trial
TENCAN laboratory trial, 2017–2020. Observations above come from this experimental record; selection considerations and proposed comparisons are engineering interpretation. Results apply to this sample and recorded conditions.