CENTRAL MIXING PLANTS
The term central mixing plant:
* the plant or “factory”
* the bituminous paving mixture is produced
- a process beginning with the aggregates and bituminous materials and
- ending with the discharge of the mixture into hauling units for transportation to the job site.
* Type of central mixing plants: portable, semiportable, or stationary in nature.
- “portable” is applied to:
* relatively small units (self contained and wheel mounted), and
* larger mixing plants (the separate units are themselves easily moved from one place to another).
- “semi-portable”:
* separate units must be taken down,
* transported on trailers, trucks, or railroad cars to a new location, and
* reassembled (process may require only a few hours or several days, depending on the plant involved).
- “Stationary plants”:
* permanently constructed in one location,
* not designed to be moved from place to place,
* capacities: up to about 400 t of mixture per hour (prepared at temperatures ranging from 110 to 185°C),
* Two general types of central mixing plants are in common use viz.;drum mix plants and batch plants.
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