Work process to get good sand in sandstone crushing plant

Nowadays artificial sand is widely used in highway construction, concrete making, and relevant construction fields. Due to the gradual shortage of natural sand resources and the booming construction industry, machine-made artificial sand becomes even more popular in the market. Various types of rocks can be processed into sand including granite, natural river pebbles, basalt, and limestone etc.

Types of sandstone crusher

Sandstone Crusher equipment can be divided into 2 categories according to its working principle:

Extrusion crusher machines

It has types of jaw crusher, rotary crusher, cone crusher, etc. It is suitable for crushing raw materials with a high abrasion index. The content of stone powder in products is low, but generally, the crushed materials have many needle-like particles and poor pumping performance.

Impact crusher machines

It has horizontal shaft impact crusher and vertical shaft impact crusher. Its characteristics are large material crushing ratio, simple structure, convenient maintenance of equipment, good product granularity and low loss of material compressive strength.

In the large sand aggregate production line, jaw crusher or rotary cone crusher is usually used for rough breaking, while cone crusher, impact crusher or hammer crusher are used for medium and fine crushing to make high quality artificial sand.

how to make artificial sand？

Here is the general process to make artificial sand production plant.

1.The raw material is fed regularly by the vibrating feeder to the primary jaw and secondary jaw/cone/impact crusher for crushing.
2.The crushed material is then transported by a belt conveyor to the vibrating screen for sieving.
3.After sieving, proper sizes (＜30mm or ＜40mm) would be transported to the sand making machine directly, while the oversized material will be returned to the secondary crusher for reprocessing.
4.The crushed material from the sand making machine will be transported to another or the same vibrating screen for sieving again.
5.The sand which meet fineness requirement can be transported to a sand washing machine for cleaning, and then be retained as final products.
6.Oversized material will be returned to the sand making machine and screen for repeated crushing & sieving until all the materials are turned into sand.

Baichy Machinery is committed to providing customers with cost-effective sand making equipment and quality services. We offer professional solutions and equipment for limestone sand manufacturing, quartz sand manufacturing, granite sand manufacturing, basalt sand manufacturing to meet different capacity requirements.

People Also Frequently Asked Questions- FAQ

What is a sand plant?

Sand Plant (Sand making plant) produce the crushed sand as an alternative of river sand. We have the special sand making machine like VSI crusher, sand screening machine like vibrating screen. These sand crushing and screening equipment are for maximum productivity.

What is manufactured sand made from?

Manufactured sand (Man Sands or M-Sand) is sand produced from crushing rock or processing the by-products of materials from dry crushing operations. Introducing CDE's washing equipment can transform these materials into sand with a high commercial value for a wide range of applications.

What equipment is used to manufacture artificial sand？

The mechanical equipment required for artificial sand making typically includes: Crusher, to crush the raw materials into smaller pieces. Sand making machine, such as vertical shaft impact crusher or VSI crusher, to crush the raw materials further and make sand.

What is the sand size?

The particle size is larger than the boundary size are coarse sand, and the rest are fine sand. 
< 2.5 mm is called extra fine sand
2.5-3.5 mm called fine sand
3.5-5 mm called medium sand
>5 mm or more called coarse sand or coarse aggregate, namely stones.