Block Making Machine for Deir ez-Zor: Power, Water and Site Layout

A block making machine for deir ez-zor is selected by three site loads before output is discussed: the electricity the plant makes on its own, the water the curing area consumes daily, and the length of yard that feeds and clears the machine. Installed capacity runs from 34.4 kW on a QST6-15 to 104 kW on a QST1800, and the generating set behind the plant covers those figures plus the stacker, feeder and mixer beside them. Under-size the power and the shift stops; under-size the water and the cure stops.

How do you size standby power for a block plant far from the grid?

Start with every unit that can run at once and add its plate. The moulding machine is 104 kW on a QST1800, 57.6 kW on a QST1200 and 34.4 kW on a QST6-15; the pallet-free QSMT series sits at 39.5 kW and 57.5 kW. Around it run a cuber at 34.15 kW, a stacker at 3.7 kW, a pallet feeder at 3 kW and a twin-shaft mixer from 25.5 kW to 75 kW.

Vibration is where the supply gets stressed. The frame shakes at 3,800 to 4,500 times per minute and the excitation force reaches 280 kN on a QST1800, so motor banks pull in together and the voltage dip is a starting problem. Tell us the hours of power your site receives, the fuel you can store and whether the mixer runs during moulding; we size the generating set and the cable runs on that answer.

What caps daily output first, the machine or the curing water?

The machine sets a nominal ceiling. Cycle time is 15 to 25 s across the QST series, 13 to 18 s on the pallet-free QSMT machines and 15 to 20 s on the QT series, so an 8 hour shift gives a countable number of moulds. What holds that number back is the cure: green blocks keep their shape only if they are stacked at the right height and watered on a schedule.

Stack height is fixed by the route you choose. The pallet-free QSMT machines cube wet blocks to 1,100 mm; cuber routes stack to 1,400 mm on the QS-1200A and 1,300 mm on the QS-1000G-A. Each layer holds 125 standard solid bricks or 18 standard hollow blocks, and the cuber works a layer in 15 to 18 s against a moulding cycle of 15 to 25 s, so the stacker usually waits for the machine, not the reverse.

Then count the water. A yard of blocks stacked 1,100 mm to 1,400 mm high is a wide evaporating surface, and spraying it twice a day takes a volume a hand pump cannot carry. Tell us your water source and its daily volume, and we set the curing area against it.

Site layout: keep the material moving one way

One-way flow is the working rule: raw materials enter at one end, cured cubes leave at the other, and no forklift reverses through the moulding bay. The layout is set by distance and surface rather than by buildings, and the equipment footprints in the specification give the spacing.

• Raw material yard: cement stock under cover, aggregate on a hardened pad with drainage, because a wet pile changes the mixing water.
• Batching and mixing: a PL series batcher feeding a twin-shaft mixer, placed between the yard and the moulding bay, never across the traffic lane.
• Moulding bay: the machine footprint plus a pallet feeder of about 3,300 x 1,700 x 2,100 mm, and clear access for mould changes.
• Curing area: a rectangle a cuber can cross, planned together with the cuber track that serves it.
• Finished block yard: hardened and drained, so a loaded forklift does not break a cube of cured blocks.

How many pallets and how much yard does the cure need?

One board leaves the moulding machine every cycle. On a 15 to 23 s cycle the board stays out of circulation until the blocks are firm, so the fleet equals the cycles multiplied by the hours under cover. Board size follows the machine class: 1,400 x 1,400 x 30 mm on a QST1800, 1,350 x 880 x 25 mm on a QST1200 and 850 x 560 x 20 mm on a QT4-15.

Cubing capacity tells you whether the yard clears. The QS-1200A and the QS-1000G-C handle about 3,800 pallets per shift, the QS-1000G-B about 2,000, the QS-1000G-A about 1,700 with one operator, and the mobile QS-1000Y about 1,300 pallets per day. The QS-1200 pallet feeder holds 3 stacks and releases a pallet in about 13 s. Where boards are costly or water is short, a QSMT machine cubes wet blocks 1,100 mm high on a 6,800 x 1,800 x 2,750 mm frame weighing about 12,000 kg.

A forklift clamp takes 500 to 800 standard bricks or 40 hollow blocks per bite, up to 10 layers of standard brick, and grips the stack without pallets, so cured blocks leave the site straight onto a truck.

Can the machine you want reach the site?

Machine size is a transport decision before it is a production one. A QST1800 measures 15,500 x 5,500 x 3,200 mm and weighs 34 t, a QST1500 11,500 x 4,550 x 2,800 mm at 20 t, and a QST1200 11,500 x 4,550 x 2,800 mm at 17 t. A pallet-based plant in that class moves as a heavy lift. Pallet-free frames are compact: 6,800 x 1,800 x 2,750 mm at about 12,000 kg, and the mobile QS-1000Y folds to 5,000 x 1,900 x 2,500 mm at about 5,000 kg.

Erection follows the same split. Heavy machines arrive as a main frame plus a hydraulic pack, a stacker at 3.7 kW, a pallet feeder at about 1,300 kg and a cuber, so the civil work is a separate tranche with its own schedule. A curing line built on mother and child vehicles needs far less foundation: the sub-car runs on a rail at 36 V DC or from a lithium battery, and 3 to 4 workers run the line. Send us the unloading equipment you can hire locally and the widest single piece your route accepts.

What to send us with your enquiry

Six items shape the plant. The block types and sizes you will sell set the moulds. The target output per shift sets the machine class between 34.4 kW and 104 kW. Your water source and its daily volume set the curing area. The hours of power at the site and the fuel you can store set the generating set. The site drawing, with the gate, access road and unloading point, sets the flow. The discharge port sets how the shipment is broken down.

We build block machines, curing lines and the handling around them, and we answer with a layout and a configuration rather than a catalogue number. Send the six items and we return the layout, the mould list, the pallet count and the electrical load list, so your generator sizing starts from real figures.