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• Three 300-ton storage silos that will give Lakeside the flexibility of producing multiple mix designs to meet the daily needs of its own paving crews, as well as the needs of independent local customers.
• A 400-tph x 112' main slat conveyor with reject gate
• A 400-tph x 32' three-way horizontal transfer conveyor

Tanks and Heaters

• Three 30,000-gallon vertical single compartment AC tanks
• A 2 million BTU heater
• A motor control center for tank farm

"The DuoDrum (with separate dryer and mixing drums) also lent itself to the elevated gravity feed system we wanted to accomplish in order to eliminate parts that require maintenance," Dempsey states.

"With an elevated dryer drum feeding directly into the mixing drum below you can eliminate a bucket elevator and sweep points that are high-wear maintenance items," he adds.

The same holds true for how the mixing drum empties directly onto the slat conveyor.

"We really wanted this new plant to be as cost-efficient as possible and the dual-drum design lent itself to eliminating as many maintenance issues as possible," Dempsey says.

Setting up the dryer and mixing drums as a gravity feed system eliminates the discharge flights needed for a conventional in-line system, and as asphalt producers know, discharge flights inside a dryer or mixing drum require maintenance.