Batching Plant

       A concrete plant, also known as a batch plant or batching plant or a concrete batching plant, is a device that combines various ingredients to form concrete. Some of these inputs include sand, water, aggregate (rocks, gravel, etc.), fly ash, potash, and cement. There are two types of concrete plants: Dry mix plants and Wet mix plants. A concrete plant can have a variety of parts and accessories, including: mixers (either tilt-up or horizontal or in some cases both), cement batchers, aggregate batchers, conveyors, radial stackers, aggregate bins, cement bins, heaters, chillers, cement silos, batch plant controls, and dust collectors (to minimize environmental pollution). The center of the concrete batching plant is the mixer. There are many types of mixer like Tilt, Pan, Planetary, Single Shaft and twin shaft mixer. The twin shaft mixer can ensure an even mixture of concrete and large output, while the tilt mixer offers a consistent mix with much less maintenance labor and cost.

Types:-
        A Dry mix plant weighs the sand, gravel and cement in weigh batchers which can be computer assisted. All the ingredients then combine in a confining chute which discharges into the agitator (or mixer) truck. Meanwhile, water is either being weighed or volumetrically metered and discharged through the same confining chute into the agitator truck. These ingredients are then mixed for a minimum of 10 minutes during transportation to the job site.

A Wet mix Concrete Batching plant combines some or all of the above ingredients (including water) at a central location in a Concrete Mixer. The mixer can be Single/Double Shaft type, Pan type or a Planetary type. The final product is then transported to the desired location. Dry mix differ from Wet mix plants in that Wet Mix contain a central mixer, which can offer a more consistent mixture in a shorter time (generally 5 minutes or less). A Mobile batch plant can be constructed on a large job site.

Both Wet Mix batch plant and a Dry Mix plant can be computer assisted using a batch computer.