Analysis of the working principle of the double shaft shredder
Time:2025-07-15
Double Shaft Shredder is a kind of high efficient crushing equipment that shears, tears and squeezes materials through two parallel rotating knife shafts. Its core working principle can be summarized as “low-speed high-torque shear”, suitable for processing metal, plastic, rubber, electronic waste and other types of solid waste. The working principle of Twin Shaft Shredder is analyzed as follows:
- Core Structure Composition
Twin Shaft Shredder is mainly composed of the following components:
Twin Rotor System: Two parallel mounted cutter shafts are equipped with staggered alloy steel blades on the surface, which are driven by gears or hydraulic motors and rotate in reverse at 15-50 RPM.
Knife Design: The blades are arranged in a hexagonal or wolfsbane style to ensure that the material is bitten and torn at multiple angles as it enters.
Screen system (optional): Controls the size of the discharged material, and any material not meeting the standard continues to be crushed in the chamber in a cyclic manner.
Hydraulic or electric drive system: Provide high torque power to ensure stable operation even when encountering high hardness materials.

- Crushing process in detail
- feeding stage: the material through the conveyor belt or manually into the feed port, under the action of gravity into the shredding cavity.
- Bite and grab: two-axis blade staggered rotation, the material will “bite” and dragged inward, the formation of the initial shear force. 3.
- Shearing and tearing: due to the two axes rotating in the opposite direction, the material is squeezed, torn and sheared between the blades, and is broken into smaller pieces.
- Particle size control: the crushed material is screened through the screen (if any), those that meet the size are discharged, and the larger fragments continue to be crushed in the cycle.
- Technical Advantages
Low speed and high torque: compared with high speed crusher, double-shaft shredder has low rotational speed but high torque, which is suitable for high toughness or high hardness materials.
Strong adaptability: it can handle a variety of materials such as metal, plastic, tires, electronic waste, etc., and can cope with mixed waste.
Energy saving and high efficiency: optimized cutter layout reduces idling energy consumption and improves crushing efficiency.
Intelligent control (high end model): Equipped with overload protection, automatic reversing and intelligent monitoring system to prevent jamming or knife damage. - Typical application scenarios
Scrap steel recycling: crushing automobile shells, metal parts of home appliances, etc. to improve the efficiency of scrap steel melting.
Electronic waste disposal: dismantle circuit boards, hard disks, etc., and separate metal and non-metal components.
Plastic recycling: shred large plastic products (such as barrels, tubes) into particles to facilitate regeneration and granulation.
With its stable crushing performance and wide applicability, the twin-shaft shredder has become the core equipment for modern solid waste treatment and resource recycling. In the future, with the progress of intelligent and energy-saving technology, its working efficiency and environmental performance will be further improved.