Guide on How to Choose the Right Asphalt Batch Plants
Location – Stationary or Mobile
It would be ideal to go for a stationary Asphalt Batch Plant if the project is there for a few years – the cost of transportation will be less than the cost of mobilization. However, if the project requires moving the project sites a few times in a year, a mobile Asphalt Batch plant is worth considering. To be noted is the fact that a mobile Asphalt plant is more expensive than a stationary one for the primary reason that the plant and all accessories are made in an assembly and disassembly mobile mode.
Size of Asphalt Batch plants
The size of the Asphalt plant is totally dependent on the production and the product mix that is required for the type of projects envisaged.
Plant Customization
The ability to customize Asphalt plants is another important criterion for choosing the right Asphalt plant. Though the Asphalt Batch plant provides a varied product mix, it is very important to consider the best return on investment in the future. This would require that the plant allow for customization to vary the product mix according to changing product requirements.
Some of the common accessories that should allow for customization are:
Cold Feed Bin: The standard configuration in most of the Asphalt plants is 3 or 4 bins. The ability to configure more bins would help increase the number of product mixes and would be useful during wet and rainy conditions.
Storage of Asphalt: Increasing demand for asphalt can have an impact on the number and capacity of the asphalt tanks required. A higher capacity, or even better, the ability to increase the number of tanks, including the ability to use mobile storage tanks, would help in increasing the storage of hot mix asphalt and avoid a breakdown in asphalt production.
Burners: The type of fuel used and its availability an important cost factors of Asphalt plants. The ability to use multiple available fuels would make an Asphalt plant more economical to run and less polluting.
Multiple Raw Materials: Apart from the traditional raw materials used in an Asphalt plant, Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) is now an important source of raw material for Asphalt plants. RAP is generated when asphalt pavements are removed for resurfacing, to access buried utilities, for reconstruction, etc. The right asphalt plant should have the ability to use both virgin and RAP.
Pollution Control: Asphalt plants need to adhere to changing pollution control standards, else could result in a close down of the plant, causing enormous economic losses. This is an area that needs to be kept in mind in terms of customization.
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