Question: A single deck vibrating screen with a mesh wire aperture size of 2 cm is used to screen 2 5 0 tph of material from

A single deck vibrating screen with a mesh wire aperture size of 2cm is used to screen 250 tph of material from a cone crusher. The screen underflow material feeds an inline ball mill. It is established, through sieve analysis, that the fraction of material above 2cm in the feed is 30%. The screen underflow material flowrate was measured to be 150 tph. Calculate;
(a) The screen overall efficiency in terms of the mill feed.
(b) The % loss of undersize material in the overflow.

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