Concrete Formation At Batch Plants And Its Detailed Anatomy

Posted by woongjinheavy on January 22nd, 2015

Concrete is a key ingredient in construction. Therefore, the formation of concrete is inevitably important to ensure that any kind of constructional work is supported upon a strong and sturdy base. Have you wondered where concrete is formed? A batch plant, also known as concrete plant mixes and blends the various ingredients required to form concrete. What are the vital components incorporated in concrete?

They include:

• Water
• Sand
• Aggregates like gravel, rocks, etc
• Potash, cement, fly ash

Let’s check out the key layout of a concrete batch plant:

• Mixers wherein the function of blending is done. There are basically two types of mixers- horizontal mixers and tilt-up mixers.
• Aggregate batchers
• Cement batchers
• Radial stackers
• Cement bins
• Conveyors
• Chillers
• Heaters
• Aggregate bins
• Cement silos
• Dust collectors
• Batch plant controls, and so on.

Remember, there are two different types of concrete plants- Ready mix and Central Mix. Woongjin Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., which is a popular concrete batch plant manufacturer in Korea is now the pivotal talking point that is known for manufacturing heavy-duty machineries like sand separator machine, cone crusher, water treatment system, dredger ship, etc. The company boasts of a team of skilled workers who put in their best efforts and use their skills to develop and design plants that offer many useful features.

The process of mixing and blending in a concrete batch plant holds interesting points. Herein, cement is mixed with both fine and coarse aggregates. Fine aggregates incorporate pit sand and coarse aggregate incorporates graded crush along with water. Today, you will find many companies manufacturing a more advanced version of the batch plant, which is known as tetradecagonal, which is a kind of egg-shaped mixer. This unit is capable of mixing up to speed of 30 to 60 rpm. If it is large-scale project, then the unit functions meticulously by picking up all the ingredients through means of Archimedes screw, then blending them and carrying them to the mixer.

Yet again, you will find batching machines that are installed onto a truck that help to carry the raw materials. Once these raw materials are reached to the desired destination the site plant starts functioning by mixing the concrete. The most interesting fact is that iron balls are dropped through large tubes inside the plant so as to help in mixing. Workers at the site make sure that the process is controlled very carefully so that concrete does not segregate.

If you check the record, you will know that there are about 6000 concrete batch plants in the United States. This has been reported by the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association. It has been estimated that every year the industry produces about $30 billion dollars worth of batch plants. While USA might show its strength in batch plant production the eastern countries are not left behind. Korea is one of the most well-known countries renowned in manufacturing excellent batch plants. A fine example is the Woongjin Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., cone crusher manufacturer in Korea and is most prestigious for producing bulk batch plants.