Polymer Blending Equipment
Affordable Asphalt Polymer Blending Equipment
American Built - Available Worldwide
If you are currently producing PMA (polymer-modified asphalt), D&H would like to help you produce faster and more efficiently. Rather than milling and remilling over several passes, our process offers a solution that provides proven inline mixing and one-pass milling capabilities. Our years of experience in building asphalt blending/modifying equipment helped us design this process for blending and milling polymers into asphalt.
D&H can custom build polymer plants to your specific application with flow rates ranging from 10 TPH to 60+ TPH of concentrated PMA binder production. Multiple configurations including skid-mounted models for terminal blending, containerized models to allow for economical ocean shipping, and portable trailer models for blending on-site by contractors or for use at multiple terminals.
Advantages
- Capability to using one plant to produce either polymer; modified asphalt or asphalt rubber
- Greatly reduced digestion time when producing polymer modified asphalt
- D&H Horizontal Mixing Chamber (learn more about this HERE)
- Capability to refill hoppers without the need to stop blending process
- Operations can be run with as little as a two-man crew (operator and groundsman)100% manual backup controls for operation with remote access to PLC
- Capability to precisely meter liquid additives into blending process
"Traditional" Polymer Milling
Disadvantages
- Batch system setup slows production capability
- Longer digestion time
- When the polymer has time to soak in the mixing tank before going to the mill, it becomes glue-like and doesn’t mill as efficiently
- Because it doesn’t mill as efficiently, it requires multiple passes through the mill, using more time, energy costs, and putting unnecessary runtime hours on the mill equipment
D&H Polymer Milling
Advantages
- Continuous one-pass inline blending capability
- Reduced digestion time
- Polymer is forced through the mill seconds after it combines with the liquid asphalt
- Polymer has greater tendency to shatter when it hits the mill since it hasn’t had time to become “glue-like”
- German-manufactured high shear mill
- Ability to expand production by configuring multiple concentrate and letdown tanks to offering the highest production rate
- Advanced automated control system and reporting capabilities
The Complete D&H Polymer Process
