Bead Mills are specially designed equipment that reduce particles to sub micron size. The main component of a bead mill is a cylindrical vessel that contains a motor-driven central shaft, which is equipped with impellers of different types.

This article details the bead mill mechanical seal issues and what imporvements can be made to decrease pump downtime and loss of fluid.

The main bead mill equipment manufacturers are Eiger Torrance, Netzsch Mastermix, Buhler, Drais, Dyno-Mill (Willy Bachofen), Knight and FrymaKoruma.

A horizontal bead mill comes with an enclosed vessel. While operating this bead mill, enclosed vessel is filled with grinding media, agitator shaft activates media, creating shearing and strong forces. Rotation of agitator imparts energy to surrounding media.  Read more... (655 words, 10 images, estimated 2:37 mins reading time)