Automatic line for autoclaved concrete wall and partition blocks’ production using advanced vibropercussion technologies.

Automatic line for autoclaved concrete production

Brief characteristics equipment for autoclaved concrete production

  • Maximum capacity (filling) – up to 250 m3 of the output production per day.
  • Estimated capacity - up to 200 m3 of the output production per day.
  • Output production – labeled wall and partition blocks, with medium density D400-D600, compression strength В2-В3,5.
  • Mass volume – 1 m3 .
  • Cast time of one mass – about 6 minutes.
  • Mass holding time before cutting - 3 - 4 hours.
  • Autoclaving period - 12 hours.
  • Concrete stock - 120 t.
  • Filling mass stock - 120 t.
  • Equipment capacity - 240 kW.
  • Water consumption - 50 tons per day.
  • Service - 11 people.
  • Environment – in shop-floor areas under moisture-free conditions at the temperature of +50С min.
  • Shop-floor area 2500 m2.
  • Filling area height 8,5m.
  • Rest area height 4,5m min.

 

Wall blocks of autoclave aerated concrete

 

  • Density, kg/m3: 500 to 800.
  • Compressive strength, kg/sm2: 20 to 60.
  • The coefficient of thermal conductivity in the dry state, λ0 [W/(m • 0 C)] : from 0.12 to 0.16.
  • Drying shrinkage, [mm/m]: no more than 0.3 for the autoclave.
  • Water vapor permeability, μ [mg/(m • h • Pa)] : from 0.24 to 0.20.
  • Fire-resistance under uniformly distributed load: not less than 150 REIDimensional accuracy: 1 mm.

 

Features of our lines for autoclaved concrete production

  • COMPACTNESS

Main equipment is located over the area of 2,5 thousand m2. This enables us to place a plant practically anywhere with pipelines available. E.g, next to the building site, binder production or sand pit.

  • LOW INVESTMENT

Relatively small capacity doesn’t require complex infrastructure construction (railway station, cargo rooms, administrative and auxiliary areas, etc.). Necessary raw materials are delivered by road.

  • SHORT PAYBACK PERIOD

Low capital inputs, short site launch date, and high-quality production enable to shorten the payback period to 1,5 years.

  • PRODUCTION QUALITY

Whole autoclaved aerated concrete production global experience present was considered in machinery design. Gas-concrete blocks produced on our line satisfy the strictest global requirements both in physicochemical properties and in geometrical dimensions.

  • AUTOMATION

ВAll machinery elements are fully automated. Main console is equipped with touch switchboard; accounting and controlling features are available. Automatic control system is powered by industrial line of world leading Japanese controllers’ such as Mitsubishi and Omron.

 

Raw material for autoclaved gas-concrete blocks production

  • BINDING MATERIALS

-Portlandcement defined in the GOST 31108 and 10178 standards; no added berg meal, burnt clay, trass, glinite, gaize, ashes; containing tricalcium aluminate (С3А) max. 8% by weight. Setting up time: start – no sooner than 2 hours, finish – no later than 4 hours;

-High-basic crozzle, containing СаО 40% min, including free lime 16 % min, SО3 6% max and R2О 3,5% max.;

-Calcium quicklime defined in the GOST 9179 standard, quick and medium slaking lime, with slaking rate 5-25 minutes and containing active СаО + МgО 70% min, dead-burning 2% max.

  • SILICA MATERIALS

-Natural materials – quartz sand, containing SiO2 85% min, damp and argillaceous ingredients 3% max, montmorillonitic argillaceous ingredients 1,5% max.;

-After products of manufacturing and power industries: fly ashes of heating and power stations, concentrates, own production (end pieces and cutting waste).

  • ADDITIVES FOR AERATED CONCRETE PROPERTIES CONTROL AND IMPROVEMENT

-additives defined in the GOST 24211 standard;

-granulated blast furnace slag defined in the GOST 3476 standard;

-gypsum block defined in the GOST 4013 standard.

  • GAS-FORMING ADMIXTURE

-aluminum powder or aluminum powder-based paste.

  • WATER defined in the GOST 23732 standard.

 

Equipment for autoclaved concrete production: process description

RAW MATERIAL PREPARATION AND STORAGE STAGE

BINDER (cement, lime) is loaded with pneumatic transport into supply silos from cement bulk trucks or railhead unloader using compressor system.

FILLER (sand) is conveyed into wet-grinding ball drum and afterwards it enters special slurry tank. Prepared water mixture from industrial waste (end pieces and cutting waste) comes therein.

ADDITIVES (liquid) are poured into special containers, where they are mixed with water and brought to required temperature; bulk additives are batched into ball drum with sand.

GAS-FORMING ADMIXTURE (aluminum powder or paste) is loaded into unit for water-base suspension production.

 

Mixing

Dry and liquid ingredients mixing comes in several stages.

Monitoring, manufacturing and handling main functions of the installation at all stages of gas-concrete mixture production are performed at plant central control that is situated under the mixing column and next to the platform for mixture casting into molds.

Proportion of ingredients and process of mixing are fully automatically performed and controlled by management computer that is stored with mix formula for production of aerated concrete of required quality.

In real time mode the operator controls the installation working process. If required the operator can adjust or change current formulation, mixing time, temperature conditions and other operational parameters on the main console electronic board or with computer.

Besides the operator can change the operation mode into part manual or manual.

 

Cutting

Mass with plastic strength needed is taken to the cutting with special positional conveyor.

At the first stage upper end piece (up to 5 mm) and bottom part are cut off the mass on the special band saw.

The second stage is mass cross-cutting and slitting on the RIF-1 cutter; waste ends fall on the waste conveyor and move to the recycling unit, and blocked-out mass is rolled over to the push-conveyor with transfer trolley for loading into autoclaves.

Autoclaving lasts 12 hours and consists of 4 stages:

-vacuum consolidation;

-pressure buildup;

- isothermal curing;

-decompression and unloading preparation.

Depending on the mixture formulation, during the isothermal curing temperature is maintained at 180 - 193 С, pressure – 8-13 bar. Autoclaving process control proceeds automatically on the special operating console.

Transporting

After autoclaved curing stage cut mass is moved to demounting. Blocks are put on the shipping trays, tightened with tape and conveyed to the storage platform or room by means of loaders.