Nomad™ Portable Asphalt Plants
Portable, Durable, Reliable
Intended for portability, durability, and reliability, Nomad plants meet the demands of a variety of small, medium and large projects that require quality hot mix asphalt. Nomad plants are designed and built in the U.S.A. with proven results around the globe. You can depend on your Nomad plant to produce high-quality hot mix asphalt for years to come with a minimum of upkeep.
Features & Benefits
- Available in two sizes, designed for maximum production capacities of 80 or 130 tons per hour (72 or 118 MTPH).
- Nomad plants are offered in various configurations, from the standard plant, with two split bins and a wet scrubber, to the expanded plant with baghouse and a silo.
- Compact design.
- Proven reliability and production capabilities.
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Air Flow
Powerful bursts of air are injected into the filter bags to make the dust break away and fall into the hopper below. The collecting auger that runs the full length of the hopper carries this dust (or fines) out of the baghouse.
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Drag Conveyor Sprockets
The Nomad drag chain has segmented sprockets for easy maintenance. The conveyor discharge opening is set back from the head sprocket so that the mix is fully discharged from each flight. This eliminates carry-over of residues that can cause excess wear of the head sprocket and chain.
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Controls
Controls include three temperature controllers, burner management controller, and PLC (programmable logic controller) for control of mixing. An emergency plant shutdown control enables the operator to shut down the entire plant.
Motor controls enable the operator to turn off/on power to motors that operate the air compressor, exhaust fan, drum drives, drum mixer burner blower, drag conveyor, slinger conveyor, fines-return auger and fuel pump. These controls also provide the plant operator with control of mid-stream start/stop.
Burner Controls enable the operator to:
- Choose manual or automatic process control
- Preset mix process temperature
- Preset the mix temperature limit
- Preset the stack temperature limit
- See burner status
- Reset the flame safeguard controller
- Turn on burner pilot
- Turn on burner main flame
- See status of limits
- See status of flame failure
- Silence the burner alarm
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Available Options
Larger control houses, motor control centers (MCC), etc. are available to meet your specific requirements. In addition to the standard drum burner that is fired on natural gas, optional burners are available that can operate on propane gas, diesel fuel, or heavy fuel and recycled waste oil (with an optional heavy fuel preheater). Low NOx burners and numerous other environmentally pro-active options are also available.
Standard Plant
The standard plant configuration includes portable drum mix unit (with integral aggregate system, drum mix unit, knock-out box and wet scrubber), drag conveyor with hopper, and control house.
Split Plant
A variation of the standard plant, split into two loads.
Expanded Plant
The expanded plant configuration includes independant aggregate system, scalping screen, parallel-flow dryer, baghouse, twin-shaft coater, drag conveyor, and single or multiple surge bins or storage silos.

The larger capacity Nomad expanded plant features an independent aggregate system, a baghouse and a storage silo.
The Nomad Baghouse
The Nomad expanded plant features a baghouse that is mounted on its own portable chassis.
Nomad Surge Bin
Each Nomad surge bin includes its own drag conveyor with batcher.
Nomad Controls
All plant controls are mounted on a centralized panel inside the control house. All of the plant's motors and switches are pre-wired and factory tested. Quick-plug connectors aid in rapid plant setup.