Milled asphalt pavement recycling
First Claim
1. An asphalt materials processor comprising:
- one or more material feeds,one or more loading feeders,one or more material heaters,one or more augers within the one or more material heaters,a hot fluid transportation system for transporting fluid from one or more hot fluid heaters to the one or more material heaters and back,hot fluid within the hot fluid transportation system,one or more heat sources for providing heat to the hot fluid in the hot fluid transportation system,a hot gas transportation system for transporting hot gas from the one or more hot fluid heaters to the one or more material heaters and back,a hot gas exhaust system,a control system comprising sensors, pumps and motors, anda fuel source.
0 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A milled materials processor consists of a self contained, stationary or fully mobile thermal process plant for the thermal processing of 100% recycled asphalt pavement into new hot mix paving material. Mobile units are designed for transportation by vehicle to a job site and rapid arrangement. For example, the milled materials processing unit at the standard legal load or non-permit load size and configuration processes approximately 25 tons per hour of pre-sized recycled asphalt pavement materials, approximately 50,000 lbs gross, having up to 3% moisture content. Larger unit sizes are available in transportable configurations of 10′ wide×54′ long, and 12′ wide×62′ long. Alternatively, units are designed and erected as stationary modular systems for higher tonnage capacities from approximately 200 tons per hour to approximately 400 tons per hour and higher.
-
Citations
58 Claims
-
1. An asphalt materials processor comprising:
-
one or more material feeds, one or more loading feeders, one or more material heaters, one or more augers within the one or more material heaters, a hot fluid transportation system for transporting fluid from one or more hot fluid heaters to the one or more material heaters and back, hot fluid within the hot fluid transportation system, one or more heat sources for providing heat to the hot fluid in the hot fluid transportation system, a hot gas transportation system for transporting hot gas from the one or more hot fluid heaters to the one or more material heaters and back, a hot gas exhaust system, a control system comprising sensors, pumps and motors, and a fuel source. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
-
-
37. An asphalt materials processing method comprising:
-
feeding one or more material feeds from one or more loading feeders into one or more material heaters, mixing the one or more material feeds in the one or more material heaters with one or more augers, heating hot fluid within a hot fluid transportation system with one or more heat sources for transporting fluid from one or more hot fluid heaters to the one or more material heaters and back, heating the one or more material feeds in the one or more material heaters with the hot fluid, removing water from the one or more material feeds in the one or more material heaters, raising the temperature of the one or more material feeds in the one or more material heaters, transporting hot gas with a hot gas transportation system from the one or more hot fluid heaters to the one or more material heaters and back, exhausting the hot gas with a hot gas exhaust system, controlling production of a finished product with a control system including sensors, pumps and motors, removing the finished product from the one or more material heaters, and providing a fuel source. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58)
-
Specification