Operating experience with the Pfeiffer MVR vertical roller mill and the MultiDrive^_®

1 MVR vertical roller mill

2 View of a grinding roller in an MVR

3 Supports of the MVR 1800 C-4 at the Hauri plant in Bötzingen/Germany

4 Mill housing of the MVR 1800 C-4 with swung-in grinding rollers

5 The MVR 3750 R-3 at the Lukavac plant (Croatia) after commissioning

6 Mounted supports of the MVR at the Balaji plant (India)

7 Erection of the mill housing (Balaji, India)

8 Installed roller modules (Balaji, India)

9 Erection of the classifier top part (Balaji, India)

10 The MVR 5600 C‑4 at the Balaji plant (India) in June 2012 after commissioning

11 Visualization of the planned plant in Port Kembla with an MVR 6000 C-6

MVR 5600 C-4 for cement

The MVR vertical roller mill and the MultiDrive^® from Gebr. Pfeiffer SE provide solutions for the cement industry that are ideally suited for meeting the requirements for ever increasing production outputs and progressively greater availabilities. Operating experience gained in more than 25 000 hours is meanwhile available for both the MVR vertical roller mill and the MultiDrive^®.

For many decades now, Gebr. Pfeiffer SE has been supplying grinding, classifying, drying and slaking machines for modern materials preparation systems. Roller mills for the cement industry are an important section of the company‘s product portfolio. The MPS roller mill has been in use since the 1950s in the raw material and coal grinding sectors. The first MPS roller mill for cement grinding was installed in 1979 and after more than 30 years is still producing blast furnace cements with a fineness of over 5000 cm²/g acc. to Blaine.

In the course of time, the MPS mill has been continuously...