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What's the best procedure & ingredients to prepare asphalt mix for road batches maintenance ?

I need a simple and low-cost method that can be implemented in minimum conditions

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Question added by Mai Al-Qousi , Shelter Project Coordinator , Norwegian Refugee Council- SRO
Date Posted: 2017/07/01

Like any good recipe, the ingredients should be high quality, they should be carefully measured, and they should be cooked at exactly the right temperatures.  At the asphalt plant, the aggregates are precisely blended into a gradation and then dried and heated to the right temperature.  The mixture is then completely coated with liquid asphalt cement.  There are two types of asphalt plants, batch and drum.  Drum mix plants dry the aggregate and blend it with asphalt in a continuous process in the same piece of equipment.  With batch plants, the rocks are first dried and heated, then added to the pugmill and blended with the asphalt one batch at a time.

Cold asphalt is cheap but not long lasting

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by Abdelmajid Khandakji , Civil Engineer , Shibh Al-Jazira Contracting Co. - SAJCO

if its not possible to get a dailly small amount of hot mix from the plant you could try the 'cold mix' but it will not last as the 'hot mix',you can get a small mobile mixer and do it in site.

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