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The MM 500 control is a high energy laboratory ball mill that can be used for dry, wet and cryogenic grinding with a frequency of up to 30 Hz. It is the first mixer mill in the market that allows to monitor and control the temperature of a grinding process.
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The MM 500 control is a high energy laboratory ball mill that can be used for dry, wet and cryogenic grinding with a frequency of up to 30 Hz. It is the first mixer mill in the market that allows to monitor and control the temperature of a grinding process.
The temperature area covers a range from -100 to 100 °C. For maximum flexibility, the mill can be operated with various thermal fluids, enabling the use of different tempering devices for cooling or heating. If liquid nitrogen is chosen for cooling, the mill needs to be equipped with the optionally available extension device cryoPad. The innovative cryoPad technology allows to select and control a specific cooling temperature in the range from – 100 to 0 °C for the grinding process.
The cooling and heating of the sample material is realized with the patented concept of thermal plates, making sample cooling with, e. g., open liquid nitrogen baths or dry ice obsolete. For tempering, the grinding jars are simply placed on top of the thermal plates. When the grinding jars come in contact with the thermal plates, heat is effectively transferred from or to the jars via the tempering device. The patented hermetically sealed fluid design allows to operate the mill with different thermal fluids, ensuring a flexible and safe temperature regulation and requiring only minimal effort for the user. Depending on the operational setup that is built up, the temperature of the thermal plates can be set in the range from – 100 to + 100 °C.
To control the temperature of a grinding process, the mill needs to be connected to an external tempering device. Basically, there are two options:
1. Temperature regulation with liquid nitrogen
The mill is operated with liquid nitrogen and connected to a nitrogen tank. In this setup the mill must be extended with the optionally available extension device cryoPad. The patented PID (proportional–integral–derivative) system of the cryoPad controls the flow of liquid nitrogen and herewith the temperature of the thermal plates. In this setup, it is possible to select and maintain the temperature of the thermal plates at a specific value. The desired temperature is adjusted via the touch display and can be selected within a range from - 100 to 0 °C, in steps of 10.
Setup 1: Extension device cryoPad and LN2 tank for the operation with liquid nitrogen.
2. Cooling or heating with a liquid thermal fluid
In this setup, the mill can either be connected to a cryostat, to a chiller or to the water tap. The external tempering device regulates the corresponding thermal fluid to a defined temperature and the thermal fluid transfers this temperature to the thermal plates. As during a grinding process, a significant amount of heat may also develop inside the jar, the temperature of the thermal plates may be manipulated. To sum up, the actual temperature of the thermal plates depends on both, on the temperature of the thermal fluid and on grinding parameters, like frequency, time, jar volume, size of grinding balls. For a maximum control of the grinding process, the actual temperature of the thermal plates is continuously monitored in the touch display.
Setup 2: Operation with an external tempering device; e.g. water tap, chiller or thermostat.
The temperature regulation of the MM 500 control is especially designed for the processing of temperature-sensitive sample materials. Cooling or heating may have different objectives.
Some applications are improved if the sample material is heated up during the process. Examples for heating are:
The required temperatures and the operational setup depend on the specific application.
As the MM 500 control can be used with or without cooling, the mill offers a wide variety of applications. It can be used to homogenize, for example, waste, soil, chemical products, coated tablets, drugs, ores, grain, tissue, glass, hair, ceramics, bones, plastics, alloys, minerals, oil seeds, plants, sewage sludge, pills, textiles, wool etc.
| Applications | mechanochemistry, mechanical alloying, size reduction, mixing, homogenization, cryogenic grinding |
| Field of application | agriculture, biology, chemistry / plastics, construction materials, engineering / electronics, environment / recycling, food, geology / metallurgy, glass / ceramics, medicine / pharmaceuticals |
| Feed material | hard, medium-hard, soft, brittle, elastic, fibrous |
| Size reduction principle | impact, friction |
| Material feed size* | <= 10 mm |
| Final fineness* | ~ 0.1 µm |
| Batch size / feed quantity* | max. 2 x 45 ml |
| Grinding chamber volume | max. 2 x 125 ml |
| No. of grinding stations | 2 |
| Vibrational frequency | 3 – 30 Hz (180 -1800 min-1) |
| Setting of temperature setpoint | digital, 0 … -100 °C (only with cryoPad) |
| Setting of sample cooling time | digital, 0 … 60 min (only with cryoPad) |
| Setting of grinding time | digital, 10 s – 8 h |
| Total grinding time | 99 h |
| Storable SOPs | 12 |
| Number of storable cycle programs | 4 (with 99 repeats) |
| Typical mean grinding time | 30 s – 2 min |
| Dry grinding | yes |
| Wet grinding | yes |
| Cryogenic grinding | yes |
| Type of grinding jars | screw-lock jar with integrated safety closure devices, multi cavity jar, adapter for safe-lock reaction vials |
| Material of grinding tools | hardened steel, stainless steel, tungsten carbide, zirconium oxide |
| Grinding jar sizes | 10 ml / 25 ml / 50 ml / 80 ml / 125 ml |
| Electrical supply data | 100-120 V, 50/60 Hz; 200-230 V, 50/60Hz |
| Power connection | 1-phase |
| Protection code | IP 30 |
| Power consumption | 750 W |
| W x H x D closed | 690 x 375 x 585 mm |
| W x H x D closed with cryoPad | 690 x 485 x 585 mm |
| Net weight | ~ 63 kg |
| Standards | CE |
| Connection thread size device input | G 1/4″ (inner thread) |
| Connection thread size tubing set | G 3/8″ (outer thread) |
| Permissible operating pressure cooling device (provided by customer) | 0 … 5 bar |
| typical pressure range of continous cooling unit e.g. cryostat | 1 … 2 bar |
| permissible pressure range of LN2 supply | 1.2 …1.4 bar |
| Permissible fluids | water, water-glycole mixture, thermal oil, liquid nitrogen |
| Thermal applications | embrittling, cooling, heating, temperature control |
| temperature range of fluids | +100 °C … -196 °C |
| temperature range of cooling plates | +100 °C … -100 °C |
*depending on feed material and instrument configuration/settings
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