The sand washing units have been designed to obtain sand meeting the requirements of the industry, such as grainsize, fineness modulus, cleanliness, friability, content of non-wished elements (organic material, chloride, sulphate, etc.) These units are used to treat sand for use in concrete, frac sand, foundry as well as other industrial sands, bentonite slurry and other minerals.
COMPACT SAND WASHING UNITS
The use of sand washing machinesequipped with hydro cyclones is the best way to achieve good sand washed. This method worksby the elimination of the fraction below63-106 µm range (250 - 140 mesh). Its performance is much higher than carried out by other machines, such as water wheels or washing screws. The result is a high-quality sand, with very low contentof particles lowerthan 75 µm but retaining the fine sand.
The components of each unit, as pumps, motors,dewatering screen, hydro cyclones, etc., are selected in accordance with the job specifications. The wide variety of available combinations allows us to design a broad range of practically tailor -made machinesto be manufactured for each customer, lettinghim optimize the investment for the production facility.
Depending on the percentage of ultra fine material to be removed and the desired quality of the desired final product, multiple washing stages may be necessary. In this multiple stage hydro cyclones processes, the material obtained in the vortex of the first hydro cyclone goes to the tank of the next untilthe sand washingis achieved.