Analyses on concrete batching plant’s features
2014-07-03
1. The power level after emptying serves to detect if the mixer emptying step is complete.
2. The decrease in power during emptying is a significant indicator of blade wear;
3. The decrease in power is indicative of mixer homogenization efficiency;
4. The increasing power during loading provides information on the loading system and automatic operations;
5.At a given loading sequence, the power peak depends on the mixer loading level;
the stabilization power level of
concrete mixer is correlated with water content or, in certain limited cases, with slump measurements; the amplitude of variation in the plateau signal for similar batches measures the homogeneity in flow characteristics;
These analyses are complex and data acquisition has not, for the time being, been able to associate the power curve with batch composition from the
small concrete batching plant. however, with the exception of improved databases, industrial applications have not evolved from the previous simplified analyses.
Consequently, research interest waned halfway through the 1970s, and industrial applications were mainly restricted to certifying loading conditions and mixing time for a given batch. Interest was renewed during the 1990s, as advances in control and acquisition systems enabled the systematic surveying of power consumption measurements;