Aggregates Manager Digital Magazine
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10 AGGREGATES MANAGER / September 2017 PLANT PROFILE over the edge of the bench to the bottom of the pit. A loader then picks it up and feeds it to a portable crushing/ screening plant. The crusher breaks the material down to 5-inch and sends it on to the screen, where all the 1-inch minus material is separated out. The 1- to 5-inch then goes to another plant, where it is crushed to the desired size before being recirculated back through a screen and sent out to the product line. "It's all automated," Mylroie says, talking about the cone crusher. "It au- tomatically adjusts itself to the pressure that the cone's crushing, so it will raise itself up and down throughout the day and adjust for where it's crushing." The belt on the wash plant has a variable drive that can speed up or slow down, depending on the feed stock. Five sprayers in the wet box soak the material before it hits the screen. It then goes through screws before hitting the dewatering screen that shakes out close to 50 percent of the water. The sand isn't completely dry when it comes out of the dewatering screen, but it only takes a day and a half for the rest of the water to leach out before it's ready to be used. "This wash plant will be more per- manent here, where before we moved it The new wash plant features five sprayers that soak the material in the wet box before it hits the screen. Then it goes through screws and a dewatering screen where 50 percent of the water is removed. Design & Construction of Fines Recovery Equipment Doing What We Do Best HIGH RATE THICKENER FRACTIONATOR VERTICAL DURABILITY CELL SUPER CUTTER HYDRO-CYCLONE PLATE & FRAME PRESS DEWATERING SCREEN Learn More Call 866-616-9351 or Visit www.azfab.com Providing Solutions