Sample assessment
The sample was a liquid slurry without a specified solid composition or solids concentration. This limits transfer of its operating time to other suspensions.
Analyst consideration: For an unspecified slurry, solids loading and viscosity can change how media move through the suspension. Complete sieve passage should therefore be considered with recovery and slurry preparation, not time alone.
Recorded objective
Make the sample finer; the reported practical check was a 300-mesh sieve.
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 | Corundum500 |
|---|---|
| Media entry | Zirconia 500 |
| Media-charge notation | 5-270/10-230/1215*50 |
| Sample-load entry | 150 (unit not stated) |
| Controller speed setting | 500 |
| 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
A corundum jar with zirconia media was recorded. After three hours the procedure states that all material passed 300 mesh. There are no earlier size readings or recorded sieve standard, aperture, drying protocol or mass-balance details.
Interpretation
The all-passing sieve observation is the specific positive outcome. It is not a laser-diffraction percentile and should not be translated to a micrometre limit without the sieve specification. The record also does not establish slurry stability after storage.
Practical precautions
Record how the slurry was washed or prepared for sieving and weigh the recovered fractions. Confirm the mesh standard and avoid comparing this check directly with an unspecified particle-size instrument.
TENCAN alternatives to evaluate
TENCAN Omnidirectional Planetary Ball Mill. For the slurry, assembly tumbling can be evaluated for redistribution while retaining the same 300-mesh test. Match solids concentration and media loading before comparing results. Assembly tumbling changes gravity-driven redistribution of slurry and media; a matched test could examine uneven residence or settling without presuming either occurred in this sample. 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.