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trommel

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trommel [′träm·əl]
(mining engineering)
A revolving cylindrical screen used to grade coarsely crushed ore: the ore is fed into the trommel at one end, the fine material drops through the holes, and the coarse is delivered at the other end. Also known as trommel screen.
To separate coal into various sizes by passing it through a revolving screen.


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The Powerscreen Orion 1400 trommel typically sets up in approximately 15 minutes and provides high mobility with heavy duty, low ground pressure crawler tracks.
Once this material is pulled out, the OCC is sent through a series of disc screens to remove more off-spec paper and trommel screens to remove fines before heading to a pulper via conveyor.
These go through a large trommel, or rotating cylindrical screen, for classification into a light thermoplastic fraction and heavy thermoset fraction.
 
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