Concrete mixing plants are of two types mobile and stationary. What is the difference between mobile and Stationary concrete plants? Each one has its advantage and a customer base. Mobile or portable version are usually preferred by those customers who want to have a machine. That can be quickly installed and shifted to different sites. On the other hand a stationary version of batching plant will be preferred by customers. Who want to have high volumes of concrete production at a single place. Such customers will not be shifting the machine often.
Below are the common components between the two plants:
- Feeding bins
- Aggregate weigh hopper
- Conveyor or skip
- Cement weigh hopper
- Water weigh hopper
- Additive weigh hopper
- Mixing unit
- Control panel
What are stationary batching plants?
Strong stationary concrete batching plant available with Atlas. Buy high quality stationary mix plant from Indian manufacturer of civil construction machinery. Some of the points that will differentiate stationary mixing plants from mobile batching plants are:
- Stationary mixers will be bigger in size when compared to same capacity mobile plant.
- They will require more space for setup.
- They are usually stationed at a single place for long duration as they will produce huge quantity of concrete at a single place.
- They are costly when compared to mobile counterpart.
- They usually have more space near the mixing units or the weigh hoppers for maintenance.
- Foundation required will be more. Foundation will be deeper as the weight of components is more.
- Transportation costs will be more because the components are bigger in size.
What are mobile concrete batch plants?
A mobile concrete batch plant is capable of producing quality. Small Concrete plant does so by utilizing small space. When two plants – stationary and mobile are placed near to each other. They are easily distinguished. The number one factor that will separate the two of them is size. Mobile plants will be compact in size compared to the same size of stationary concrete plants. It is produces quality ready mix concrete in batches. We can control and select the size and recipe to product concrete. Portable plants are the best choice for temporary projects or for sites where constant shifting is required. They can be installed at sites which are located remotely and where the bigger stationary plant can not be shifted.
Advantages of a mobile concrete batch plant:
Below describe benefits or advantages of mobile (portable) concrete batch plants. Atlas is manufacturer of 90 tph and 120 tph Mobile batching Plant in India.
- Utilizing less space: It is no rocket science that mobile plants have smaller components. These components are tightly packed and the equipment utilizes less space.
- Installation time is less almost 50%: Compared to stationary plant the installation time is less. The overall size is small, weigh is less and foundation required is minimum. Hence it can be installed in lesser time frame. This less installation time makes it ideal for shifting to places often. Customer can take up jobs that will require shifting places when they have a reliable portable mixer.
- Prewired: Most of the portable versions will be pre-wired. Unit wise the components will be wired and each unit will be with a junction box. When units are prewired with junction box. It will facilitate faster installation time. A lot of time is usually wasted at site during installation for wiring. This system will help save a lot of time.
- Less installation cost: The foundation required for mobile plant is less when compared to a stationary plant. The size of the components is smaller and hence the installation costs less. Some designs of the mobile plant only require flat surface and minimal foundation to get started. This is one of the real advantages over the static version.
- Crane required is for less duration: Since the stationary plant comes with more components the requirement of crane for erection will be for longer duration. The portable version requires crane for lesser duration. Some designs of mobile plants do not require a crane.
- Foundation cost is less: Usually the stationary plants require deeper and more number of foundation blocks when compared to mobile version.
- Low maintenance: Portable plants are usually low on maintenance compared to the stationary plants.
- Genset: The requirement of power is less when the two machines of same capacity are compared.
- Same production as stationary version: The mobile version promises same productivity. Atlas is manufacturer that uses exactly the same mixing unit in the mobile and stationary plants. This ensures that production remains the same.
- Mobility: The mobile plant comes with smaller and less components and hence it is easy to transport the same. The cost of transportation is also less.
- Low initial cost: The initial cost of ownership is less in the mobile concrete plant compared to stationary plant.
- Same control panel in mobile and stationary version: The control panel in Atlas machines remain the same in both the machines.
- Easy to operate as plant is comparatively small: The mobile or portable version of concrete plant is as easy to operate as a stationary plant.
- Printing facility for all important parameters just like stationary plant: The control panel is the same and the software in the HMI. It is the same. This ensures that the printout of all important parameters is also same.
