Aggregate Stockpiling and Handling...• Asphalt mixes are 95% aggregate... • Concrete is about...
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“Aggregates 101”
Aggregate Stockpiling and Handling
IAAP 2019 ConventionEducation Program
March 6, 2019
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“Aggregates 101”
Purpose of Training• Importance of proper stockpiling
• Handling Material Correctly
• Loading out Correctly
• Asphalt Customers’ Perspective
• Ready Mix Concrete Customers’ Perspective
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“Aggregates 101”
Stockpiling Aggregates – What Do We Need to Know?
• Contamination
• Degradation
• Segregation
• Load-out
• Consistency
• Affects on customers
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Contamination
Contamination is defined as:
The introduction of extraneous aterial(normally deleterious) into a finished aggregate
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Contamination by Tracking Mud and Clay on to Pile
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Contamination by Digging into Stockpile Pad or Dumping Clean-up on Side of Pile
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Contamination
• Floor (oversize or fines)
• Housekeeping – road materials
• Adjacent Stockpiles• If not separated
• Multi-tasking
• Loading multiple products, overloads
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Contamination
• DO• Use conveyors so foreign
material isn’t introduced by other equipment
• Minimize inventory buffer –time increases chance for foreign material to overtake stockpile
• DON’T• Drive equipment on
stockpile
• Handle material more than once
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DEGRADATION
Degradation is defined as “The actual
breakdown of individual aggregate
particles due to abrasion and attrition
during stockpiling and handling”
Can be detrimental to the final product due to
the increased minus #200 material (fines)
Increased fines cause performance problems
in the final products
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Degradation
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Degradation
Degradation is defined as “The actual
breakdown of individual aggregate
particles due to abrasion and attrition
during stockpiling and handling”
Breakdown can change gradation significantly
Change in gradation could affect customer use OR make material OUT OF SPEC
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Managing Degradation
Recognize degradation in ramps or benches
Minimize areas for ramps or driving on piles
When possible blend degraded material with coarser material
If degraded material doesn’t look right – too fine, e.g. - Call QC or supervision
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SegregationSegregation – What is it?
• The separation of a well graded production aggregate into individual sizes due to gravity.
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Segregation
• DO• Minimize drop height to
limit overrun (variable height conveyors)
• Use telescoping conveyor and build in windrows
• Load from end of pile
• DON’T• Build stockpile with fixed
height conveyors
• Build stockpiles with trucks, loaders or dozers
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Segregation
Segregation - Stacker Conveyor
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Segregation
Segregation - Size and Shape• Size ranges
• Coarse
• Midrange
• Fine (sand)
• Texture
• Smooth surface
• Rough surface
• Shape
Small Size Large
Heavy
Mass
Lighter
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Segregation
Segregation• Size and Mass
• Destroys blend
• Settling
• Erosion
Small Size Large
Heavy
Mass
Lighter
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Segregation
Segregation - Casting Distance• Casting segregates material
• Drop distances
• Stockpile shapes
Size
Mass
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Segregation
Distance = Segregation• Distance from
• truck to ground
• conveyor to pile
• bucket to truck
• Keep your
• conveyor low
• bucket low
• dump slow
Large
Medium
Small
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Fine
Coarse Coarse
Medium Medium
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Segregation
Segregation – Problems it Causes• Mix characteristics
• Control at aggregate & HMA plant
• Roadway
- Structural integrity
- Stripping potential
- Raveling
- Drainage
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Stockpiles
Know Stockpile Construction• Conical
• most re-blending
• Windrow lifts
• Least re-blending
• Layered
• some re-blending
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Stockpiles
Know Stockpile Shapes
• Cone
• Trapezoid
• Simple layer
• Windrow layer
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You’ve got to be kidding?
The 3 step process- Really?
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Truck Stockpiling Methods
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Truck Stockpiling Method
• The piles built as single or multi layer• A layer can be pushed up by loaders• 2nd most common method• Material should not be placed closer than 2’-
4’ to the layer’s edge
Avoid dropping over edge
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Loader Stockpiling Method
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Cone stockpile
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An adjustable radial stacker moves
horizontally and vertically as the
material is produced
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Beginning of an elongated cone stockpile with a
radial stacker
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Radial Stockpile
• Easy pile to build
• Must have axle system to allow movement radially
• Feed point is stationary
• Simple way of increasing volume with the same feed point
• Increases live storage
• Most consistent product to load out
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Types of Stockpiling
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Successful Operations
Who is our customer?
Who can make a GREAT first impression?
Who interacts most with them at the quarry?
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Successful Loader Operations
Loader Techniques
• Know stockpile
construction
• Loading point
• Working the face
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Successful Loader Operations
Stockpiling / Moving Piles• Re-blend as you move
• Work the face of pile as if loading customer truck
• Stack as high as loader will reach
• Avoid ramping whenever possible (especially Fix plant customer stone)
• Do not cast over the side, this promotes segregation
• If ramping unavoidable, load ramped material for commercial uses (under slab, drainage fill, etc)
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Successful Loader Operations
• Asphalt and Concrete – Fixed Customers
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Successful Loader Operations
WHY CONSISTENCY?• Asphalt mixes are 95% aggregate...
• Concrete is about 85% aggregate...
• Properties of asphalt and concrete mixes are based on
the properties of the aggregate…
• Changes in the aggregate properties will cause changes
in the asphalt and concrete mix properties…
• Customer may get penalized…
• Performance does not meet expectations…
• Materials will prematurely fail!
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Successful Loader Operations
Loading Point• Load from end
perpendicular to belt
• Re-blend as you load
• Approach straight• fine
• medium
• coarse
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Successful Loader Operations
Entering the Face• Work upward
• Do not scrape ground
in front of pile
• Wet
• Contamination
• Split the seams
• rotate up
• back out
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Successful Loader Operations
Working the Face
• Move across face
• Perpendicular to conveyor
• Less segregation
• better mix
• fine
• medium
• coarse
• Avoid deep penetration
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Successful Loader Operations
Questions?