A concrete batch plant is a mixing plant where sand, gravel, cement, water, and other materials are turned into concrete. The concrete produced in concrete batch plants is used for the foundations of buildings, paving material for roads and parking lots, pipes used for drainage and plumbing and precast concrete components.
In the past, concrete batch plants posed environmental issues in that they produced large amounts of dust and other particles that contributed to air pollution as well as dirty runoff water. Today, however concrete batch plants are designed to reuse wastewater and decrease the amount of pollution emitted.
Concrete batch plants are used by the construction industry and are required to produce high volumes of concrete and to be portable or stationary as required for a particular construction site. There are various models of concrete batch plants available on the market designed to suit the particular needs of the construction industry. Self-loading batching plants are ideal for use at pre-cast yards and building sites. They are particularly useful for sites where continual concrete production is required 24 hours per day. The self-loading batch plant is fitted with a radial scraper that loads all the mineral materials, used in making concrete, into a weigh hopper. This is achieved via a programmable computer. The batch plant then discharges the mixture from the weigh hopper into either a pan mixer; drum mixer or dry belt conveyor. The options available for self-loading batching plants are that they can be supplied with or without cement silos or bag splitters, they can be electrically powered or diesel driven, computer weighing systems with a capacity of up to 36 different programmable settings, manual, semi-automatic or fully automatic control panels, water systems and the option of ad-mixture plants.
There are different types of self-loading concrete batching plants such as:
- The Robomix, which is fitted with a drum mixer and is ideal for use on the job site as they are able to discharge concrete into dumpers.
- The Robomescolatore is fitted with a Pan Mixer and is ideally suited to use in precast yards. They discharge concrete via a single hydraulically operated hatch that can be adjusted to suit most heights.
- The Hydromix dry batching plants, which are fitted with conveyor belt discharge systems, are ideally suited for use with conventional truck mixers.
- Bin-Fed batching plants are transportable, fully automated, have their own hydraulic off-loading legs and are capable of producing outputs of up to 40m3 per hour. These batch plants can be custom made to suit construction industry specifications, with accessories added such as: ad-mixture plants, low-level or upright cement silos, aggregate feeders and water chillers.
Concrete batch plants should be placed close to a construction site, so fewer transit concrete mixer trucks are used thus saving the industry fuel costs, labour and equipment costs.
Lynette Heathfield-Eliott is in charge of equipment on-line marketing at http://www.utranazz.com
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