A concrete batch plant is a plant that is a combination of several ingredients in order to make concrete. This type of plant can be somewhat mobile in order to provide excellent facilities for the repair and construction of highways and airport runways, for example. It can produce high volumes of product and is very useful for these purposes.
At the center of the batch plant will be the mixer. Here the different ingredients of the concrete will be mixed together. Such components as the sand, water, aggregate (gravel, rocks, etc.), potash, fly ash, and cement are mixed together to the proper consistency.
When the concrete is mixed properly, it is then transferred to trucks to be transported to the site where it is being applied to the roadway or to the airport runway for example. A ready mix concrete plant will mix the concrete right at the spot of the application, but the batch plant is more off site, and centrally located. The advantage of the batch plant is that the finished product will have more consistency as it is all being mixed at one central location the same formula going into all of the batches, as well as the batch being computerized.
Batch plants offer as their advantage the fact that the batches that go out from them are uniform as well as the fact that the output can very high in a short period of time. This is of immense importance in industrial situations such as buildings, highways, and airport runway construction.