Work flow of sand making machine
As a child I have always liked playing around a small hillock of sand at a construction site. As unreasonable as it may sound, playing with sand and gravel has always been very amusing. While returning home, the sand used to spill everywhere, on the road, in the house, in the kitchen, on the furniture in the living room, just everywhere. It’s funny to look at how things have changed.
With time, the things that intrigue us as children change. There has been a drastic change from being amused by sand to start understanding a sand making machine. I recently learnt about the mechanism of a sand making machine. And here is all about sand making machines that you would want to know.
Yes, sand does not occur naturally and the sand which occurs naturally is not used in construction. There are various types of sand making machine and sand screening machine manufacturers in the industry. A Sand Making machine is as the name suggests the machine which is used for making sand. The sand is the output that is produced after processing the raw material.
If you are from a manufacturing background or have knowledge about machines, you would know the mechanism of a sand making machine. The simplest way to explain the mechanism is that the grit is fed in the machine, processing occurs and the output obtained is sand. The working of a sand making machine and that of a stone crusher is alike.
The workflow of a sand making machine:
The input to the machine is done.
The material fed passes through the vibrating feeder.
From vibrating feeder, the material in process moves to the jaw crusher. The jaw crusher further processes the material.
From the jaw crusher, the material further goes to the impact crusher.
Further the semi processed material passes to the vibrating screen. Here the screening happens and the raw material is thus releases.
To move from one process to other, the conveyer belts are used.
The machine technicalities:
· The machine consists of the feeding hopper, a rotopactor, motors, and shafts.
· When the input is taken from the stone crusher, as the grit, the cost of the sand obtained is very low.
· The most Economical ratio of the rotopactor is 1:4. It means that if the size of the sand to be obtained is 4 mm, the size of the rotopactor should be minus 16mm.
· A sand screening machine is used to screen the sand and make sure that the sand obtained is of a particular grade. The sand is graded according to the size of the obtained material.
Things to look for while buying a sand making machine:
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· The capacity of the machine. If you need to produce sand on a large scale, you need to go for a machine with high capacity.
· The machine should be low on maintenance. You don’t want to keep changing the parts and investing additional money and time in the machine.
· Cost effective. No matter how huge your budget is, you always need to think and understand if the machine is value for money.
· Consistency. While buying a machine, it is important to do a research and know if the machine performs well throughout its lifetime.
Input to the Sand making machine:
· To manufacture sand on large scale, large size rocks are fed into the machine. Huge rocks upto 500 mm of size are input. Sometimes the input made to the sand making machine is also taken from the byproducts of the stone crusher.
Output from the Sand making machine:
The output is the sand with various grades. The sand obtained can be plaster sand or artificial sand. There is also dust free sand that is available. There is different utility of each types of sand.
In construction industry, dust free sand is preferred over river sand for many reasons. The artificial sand is only used throughout the country everywhere for construction. The advantages of artificial sand over the natural river sand:
· The artificial plastic sand is more resilient
· Sand without dust particles has more utility than otherwise. Mortar having dust shrinks when it settles and develops cracks.
· Plaster sand is cube shaped and is used in concreting, construction, plastering and other construction allied work.
· The material and the size of the sand that is needed can be customized by using a sand screening machine. This machine does not very high as there are many sand screening machine manufacturers in India itself. The machines is not needed to be imported.
· Artificially prepared sand is free of impurities. Coal, bone particles other decays, seeds shells and similar organic materials.
· The sand obtained of sand making machines is just one step process and doesn’t need any kind or purity check. The sand is ready to be used.
· The artificial plastic dust free sand is ideal and provides strength. There is no need to add any other admixture to it.
- The plastic sand also reduces the reliability on naturally obtained sand and proves to be helpful.
- It is also a good cost effective alternative.
There are many sand machine manufacturing companies in India. You have to pick the right machine for you.
