Mini Portable Planetary Ball Mill with Touch Screen PBM-04M/29 Kg Only, Capable of 4x100ml milling

General Introduction

PBM-04M ball mill is a mini and easy-to-use laboratory planetary ball mill with touch screen for fine grinding, mixing, homogenizing, mechanical alloying, cell disruption, small sample preparing, new product development and small volume high-tech material production. The PBM-04M planetary ball mill features with small volume, high efficiency, quick clamp, and quiet operation. The system can be used to mill various materials down to 0.1µm. It can also be used to smash and blend various products of different materials and granularity with dry or wet methods. The PBM-04M is widely applied in the fields of Geology, Mining, Metallurgy, Electronics, Construction Material, Ceramics, Chemical Engineering, Light Industry Medicine, Environmental Protection etc.

Technical Specification

Features

- Touch screen enabling flexible and precise process control
- Mini size easy for carrying around for field application with capability of 4x100ml milling volume
-  Wide range of Jars available from as small as 25ml to 100ml
- High range of rotational speed up to 870rpm, high efficiency and fine granularity
- Ideal for wet or dry grinding application
- Capable of vacuum and inert gas grinding environment when using with vacuum jacket
- Rotate in both clockwise and counter clockwise direction, Programmable interval and pause times
- High milling uniformity and excellent repeatability
- Four samples with different sizes and materials can be milled in one experiment
- Leak-proof jars for wet grinding
- Large range of materials available for grinding media
- Integrated Gear and belt driving mechanism offer robust milling process
- Safety switch ensures automatic shut down if cover is opened during operation

 Applications

- Geology and Mineralogy: rock, gravel, sand, and minerals
- Ceramics: porcelain, sintered ceramics, clay, and fireclay
- Chemistry: pesticides, fertilizers, salts, inorganic and organic materials
- Biology: plants, leaves, freeze-dried samples
- Pharmaceuticals: ophthalmological agents, gels, creams, extracts, drugs, pastes, dragee, tablets
- Metallurgy: ores, sintering
- Material technology: pigments, precious materials, new materials, alloys, mechanical alloying and activating
- Analysis preparation: Spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence, X-ray structure analysis, chromatography

Working Principle

Included in Package

The Mini portable planetary ball mill is a turn-key solution including the Mini Portable 4x100ml planetary ball mill, 4 jar fastening devices,  a spare belt, one operation manual, and a power cable. Ground jars including balls need to be ordered separately. 

Warranty

- One years standard warranty with life-time support
- Damage due to improper storage condition or maintenance is not covered by warranty
- Extended warranty available upon request

Additional Notes

- When item is in stock, it will be shipped in 3-5 business days; if not in stock, lead time is about 2-3 weeks
- Accept custom OEM if there are any special requirements for your application

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How to Select the Right Grinding Jars and Balls?
   
   Selection of the materials of the grinding jars and balls mainly depends on the sample materials. Rule of thumb, the material of jars and/or balls must be harder than the sample material. Otherwise, it is actually the jars and balls which will be ground by the samples in the grinding process. As a result, the material of the jars and balls will become contamination in your sample materials.

    In order to make the grinding process more efficient and obtain samples with less contamination, there are many other factors to be considered, such as density of the materials of the grinding jars and balls, energy input, rotation speed, brittleness of the sample material, and temperature in the jar during grinding et al. Please refer to the following table may help you in understanding the process in more detail. For any other questions or concerns in your specific grinding process, Please contact us to discuss in more details. Please click here for a wide variety of grinding jars and balls available in stock.

2. How many grinding balls should  be used for different sizes of grinding jars? 

The numbers of grinding balls are optimized based on many users' experiences and are for references only. Minor adjustment may be necessary in terms of the nature of milling materials, total volume of material and balls, required fineness, and other factors for your applications.

3. How to clean jars and balls after ball milling process?

In some ball milling process, the milled materials may stick to the grinding jars and balls during the long time grinding process. Following please refer to a few methods which may help.

1). To clean with a ultrasonic cleaning machine. Depending on the milled materials, DI water, Acetone, and IPA may be used sequentially or alone. 

2). To ball mill with the right solvent. After discharge the milled materials, add some solvent the grinding jars and rotate the milling jars with the balls for two to three minutes. Remove solution and Check. Repeat the process if necessary. 

3). To ball mill with harder materials. After discharge the milled materials, add some hard materials into the milling jars and rotate the milling jars with the balls for two to three minutes. Open grinding jars and Check. Repeat the process if necessary. 

For cleaning agate balls, you may consider to use quartz sand, unstained glass such as some window glass or container glass. 

4. How to ball mill in vacuum or inert gas atmosphere using the PBM-04 and stainless steel jacket

The planetary ball mill PBM-04 can be used to for vacuum ball milling and inert gas atmosphere ball milling for sensitive materials when stainless steel jacket is used together with the selected grinding jars. The SS jacket is equipped with two shut off valves connecting to vacuum pump and inert gas bottle. The following pictures show the set up and one stainless steel jacket with a grinding jar. 

If you have any suggestions, please let us know. We will provide you a credit in your next purchase. 

5. How to maintain the PBM-04 ball mill?

The PBM Series planetary ball mill series do not need regular grease lubrication because of the self-lubricating gears, so users saves time in operation. The self-lubricating gears also eliminated risk of gear damage due to failing to maintenance regularly.

However, the ball milling area does need to be kept clean. After each use, the milling area must be cleaned properly from any dirt or loose materials. For cleaning the grinding jars and balls, add some water and detergent into the grinding jars then rotate the jars with balls for a few minutes.  Refer to item 3 for more detail about cleaning jars and balls after ball milling process. 

5) What is ratio of grinding ball to feed material?

Generally the ration of grinding ball to feed material is between 1:1.1 to 1:1.5. Maximum load of each grinding jar is 2/3 of its normal volume