Failure to consider critical plant design factors can leave you struggling to efficiently crush materials as you fall behind quotas, but, if you prepare and design well, your plant will help you meet your production goals.
To help you prepare your plant for success, here are the top factors to consider for plant design.
The Type of Material That You’ll Be Crushing
This is often one of the first and most obvious factors when designing a stone processing plant: what kind of material will you be crushing?
Your plant needs will vary based on the answer to that question. Will you be crushing hard material, or soft material? Harder materials, like granite, trap rock, diabase, etc., require jaw crushers, gyratory crushers, and cone crushers that deal better with hard abrasive materials. Conversely, impact crushers deal well with less abrasive materials, and are suitable for softer materials and help reduce any potential problems with flat and elongated products.
Whatever the type of material you’ll be crushing, you’ll need to consider it immediately when designing your plant.
The Targeted Finished Products
A second important consideration is the finished products that your plant is targeting to produce.
What type of finished products will be required and what is the quantity of each finished product? Different crushing and screening stations will be needed to produce all of the different products and at the quantities required.
That will mean considerable attention should be made to install adequate sized crushers, screens, and conveyors to optimize each component of the processing plant with the end products in mind.