Method for operating a roller press (1) for compacting or briquetting material, wherein the roller press (1) has two counter-rotating press rollers (2) between which a roller gap (W) is formed and at least one of the roller surfaces is provided with a profile, wherein the material (M) in the roller gap (W) between the roller surfaces is pressed into a
briquette (3) or into briquettes or a
briquette strand, wherein the rollers (2) are preferably cooled during operation, characterized in that that during operation at least one characteristic parameter is continuously determined which depends on the formation of deposits (7) of the material (M) on the profiled roller surface or on the profiled roller surfaces and that one or more operating parameters of the press are changed depending on at least one determined characteristic value in order to reduce
caking (7), that the operating parameter(s) are changed by means of a
control system in such a way that a deviation of a determined actual value (I) of the characteristic parameter(s) from a target value (S) of the characteristic parameter(s) is minimized, where the press (1) is operated with a
variable pressure (P) as an operating parameter and the pressure (P) is changed by a
control system depending on the determined characteristic value. and / or the press (1) with variable cooling and / or variable temperature (T) and / or variable
feed temperature (T) A ) is operated as an operating parameter and the cooling and / or the temperature (T) and / or the input temperature (T) A) is changed by a
control system depending on the determined parameter and / or the press (1) is operated with a variable feed of the input material, namely with a variable quantity flow or
mass flow of the supplied input material as an operating parameter, and the supplied quantity of material or the quantity flow or
mass flow (m) of the supplied input material is changed by a control
system depending on the determined characteristic value and / or the press (1) is operated with a variable rotational speed as an operating parameter and the rotational speed is changed by a control
system depending on the determined characteristic value, and whereby A vibration value is determined as a characteristic value by a measurement using a
vibration sensor (8). or A fluctuation value is used as a characteristic value, which is determined from fluctuations of a
machine parameter, wherein the fluctuation value is determined from fluctuations in the
gap width of the roller gap or from fluctuations in the
contact pressure of one or both press rollers or from fluctuations in the motor current or
motor torque of one or both drives of the press rollers.