Study on the numerical simulation of batch sieving process

Screening was widely used in many sectors of industry.However,it is rather incomplete to the cognition of the sieving process for us due to the daedal separation process involving interactions of thousands of particulates.To address this problem,two dimensional numerical simulation of batch sieving process was performed by adopting advanced discrete element method(DEM),which is one of the highly nonlinear digitized dynamic simulative methods and can be used to reveal the quantitative change from parti- cle dimension level.DEM simulation results show that the jam phenomena of sieve-plate apertures of the "blinding particles" in the screen feed can be demonstrated vividly and results also reveal that the velocity of particle moving on the screen plate will vary along with the screen length.This conclusion will be helpful to the design and operation of screen.