As a commonly used stone crushing equipment in the mining industry, cone crusher plays a key role in the secondary crushing of materials. Among them, single-cylinder cone crusher and multi-cylinder cone crusher have attracted much attention from users. Both have their own advantages. How to choose?

From the perspective of adaptability to materials, single-cylinder cone crusher performs well in the processing of soft ores and weathered ores with its larger feed port capacity. Multi-cylinder hydraulic cone crusher is better in processing medium-hard and high-hard ores with its faster swing speed. The finished material contains more fine particles with uniform particle size and significant fine crushing effect.

In terms of production cost, single-cylinder cone crusher has a compact structure, small footprint, PLC centralized control, convenient maintenance, low failure rate, long service life, and high return on investment in the long run. Multi-cylinder cone crusher has a small basic investment and affordable price, which can save users early production and investment costs.

In terms of discharge adjustment, the single-cylinder cone crusher adjusts the upper and lower positions of the moving cone through the bottom hydraulic cylinder to achieve convenient adjustment of the discharge port size and product particle size. The multi-cylinder cone crusher uses a fully hydraulic protection and adjustment device, combined with a fixed-axis structural design, to semi-automatically adjust the discharge port and effectively control the stone particle size.

In actual applications, if your material has a high hardness, a multi-cylinder cone crusher is a better choice, and its powerful crushing force can efficiently handle high-hardness materials. If the material particle size is large, a single-cylinder cone crusher can crush materials up to about 560mm, which can better meet the needs. For users with high hourly production capacity requirements, the multi-cylinder cone crusher has a production capacity of about twice that of a single-cylinder cone crusher under the same motor power, up to 1,100 tons per hour, which is undoubtedly an ideal choice.

Single-cylinder cone crushers and multi-cylinder cone crushers each have their own advantages. You can make comprehensive considerations based on the actual situation such as material characteristics, production cost budget, discharge adjustment needs and output requirements, and choose the cone crusher that best suits your production, so as to maximize the efficiency of the equipment in production and create higher value.