The Disintegrator

Aerosion Ltd. has created a unique technology called the Disintegrator, an innovative method of grinding materials into fine powders. The Disintegrator uses rapidly spinning wheels to launch and fracture materials. The resulting high energy impact fracture uses less energy than competing technologies, while producing finer particles at a lower overall cost.

High-speed motor and bearing technology spins contra-rotating wheels; one wheel launching the particles at high velocities at an impact wheel rotating at high-speed in the opposite direction.

The high velocity collisions created by the Disintegrator shatter the particles between material and crystal interfaces, liberating differing minerals from each other in a method previously thought of as economically impossible. As a result of the Disintegrator’s high impact fracture process, larger surface areas are efficiently created that benefit other industrial processes.

Aerosion’s Disintegrator is the ideal technology choice for a variety of materials, such as:

• Limestone and other industrial minerals
• Cement & cement additives
• Base metal ores & concentrates
• Coal & petroleum coke
• Precious metal and PGM ores & concentrates
• Iron ores
• Silica
• Tailings for reprocessing
• …and many more.

Customers in specialized industry sectors can benefit from Aerosion’s technology in a number of ways, including:

• Producing fine particles at a lower overall cost than current grinding technologies.
• Producing fine particles with greater reactivity in downstream applications, thereby offering significant process efficiencies.
• Producing fine particles with a higher degree of mineral liberation, allowing for a simpler, more economical separation of mineral constituents and beneficiation.