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Term Project: Power Requirement For Grinding of Coffee Beans and Screen Analysis

This document is a term project proposal from Bicol University's Department of Chemical Engineering. The proposal aims to determine the power requirement and screen analysis for grinding coffee beans. It introduces grinders as size reduction equipment and discusses Rittinger's Law for estimating the energy required for comminution. Rittinger's Law assumes energy consumed is proportional to the newly generated surface area and provides a formula to calculate the work needed to reduce mass with variables like power, mass flowrate, and mean particle diameters before and after size reduction.

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Term Project: Power Requirement For Grinding of Coffee Beans and Screen Analysis

This document is a term project proposal from Bicol University's Department of Chemical Engineering. The proposal aims to determine the power requirement and screen analysis for grinding coffee beans. It introduces grinders as size reduction equipment and discusses Rittinger's Law for estimating the energy required for comminution. Rittinger's Law assumes energy consumed is proportional to the newly generated surface area and provides a formula to calculate the work needed to reduce mass with variables like power, mass flowrate, and mean particle diameters before and after size reduction.

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BICOL UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING


Legazpi City, Albay

Term Project: Power Requirement for Grinding of Coffee Beans and


Screen Analysis
Flores, Wellington Jr.,Guillermo, Kenneth, Namora, Zane Arden
Particle Technology

Abstract

The proposal aims to create a product described as a soluble, flowable, dry-to-the-


touch coffee flavored powdered alcohol. It readily and uniformly dissolves in water to form
low-viscosity liquid solution. It is classified as a type of coffee flavored liqueur. It is comprised
of alcohol powder component and coffee mix powder component mixed to form final product.
It is also aimed to determine the specifications and design equipment for the production
process of the product.

Keywords: Rittinger’s Law, Grinder, coffee beans, power requirement, size reduction
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I. Introduction

A grinder is a type of size reduction


equipment. There are 4 types of size II. Rittinger’s Law
reduction equipment; crushers (coarse The comminution of solid materials
and fine), grinders (intermediate and consumes energy, which is being used to
fine), ultrafine grinders and cutting break up the solid into smaller pieces.
machines. Grinders for intermediate and The comminution energy can be
fine particles are one of the many estimated by Rittinger’s Law, which
processes used for grinding coffee assumes that the energy consumed is
beans. Grinders reduce crushed feed to proportional to the newly generated
powder. Grinding of coffee beans to finer surface area. The formula used to
particle sizes is essential. Contact time, calculate for the energy required is given
Extraction rate and Flow rate are the by the equation:
factors that affect
𝑃 1 1
𝐸= = 𝐾𝑅 [ − ]
𝑚 𝐷𝑝2 𝐷𝑝2

Wherein E is the work needed to reduce a unit mass of feed, P is the gross power in kW, m is the
mass flowrate in kg/m3, KR is the Rittinger’s Constant , DP2 and DP1 are the mean diameter after
and before crushing. The power ratio of two calculated E values from two different size ranges
are calculated using Rittinger’s Law.

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