Burner India: Fuel-Efficient Asphalt Plant Solutions for Reduced Costs

“The new generation of contractors and construction companies are buying asphalt plants based on their evaluation of the plant’s ability to perform efficiently with lower fuel consumption, and not on their cost alone. And we offer innovative burners for asphalt plants, promoting energy efficiency, lower fuel costs, and reduced carbon footprint.”

Vinesh Bhatia - Group President and Partner, Burner India

We are keen to address the requirements of asphalt plant manufacturers and the end-users looking for energy efficiency in their plants and to reduce the cost of operations. This is especially true of the new generation of contractors and construction companies who are acquiring plants based on their evaluation of the plant’s ability to perform efficiently with lower fuel consumption.

Even 5% better fuel efficiency attained is considered noteworthy. This is because the thumb rule is that to produce 1500-2000 tons of asphalt mix, 350 liters of fuel is required. Given the margins under pressure, asset owners are looking at ways to optimize the running of the plants, curtail fuel costs, have a reduced payback period, enjoy some profitability, and reduce their carbon footprint.

The heat loss through continuous running of the plant substantially reduces its life. Hence, we are designing more advanced burners for burning fuel and asphalt heating by a careful selection of the pumps and drives sourced from manufacturers who can assure us of their efficiency and in reducing the cost of plant operations. Further, in line with the OEMs plans to make their plants more flexible, we are providing burners that can burn diesel oil, LDO, adulterated heavy oil with various levels of viscosity, and even low sulphur high speed diesel oil. We are also providing multi-fuel gas-based burners that can work on CNG, LPG, and even biogas.


What’s more, our Auto Flame Controller Burners sourced from our principal in UK are completely IoT based. They can be programmed to make the combustion system of the plant adapt to as many as forty variants of fuel configurations. A unique feature of the Auto Flame Controller Burner is that, having a PLC based unit, data in the system can be analyzed, so as to attain the right levels of combustion and needed air to fuel ratio, which will further enhance the operations of the plant.

While we are making some modifications in our burners based on customer feedback, we are also engaging with the OEMs to minimize derating of the RAP modified plants using both cold and hot RAP materials. In accordance with this, we are providing solutions that can, by default, generate the requisite levels of heat, based on the nature and quantity of RAP materials being used.

We are currently working with some OEMs that are providing higher capacity 300-320 tph asphalt plants, and we have successfully fitted and commissioned plants with our burners for asphalt plants of as much as 500 tph. To ensure complete satisfaction with our services, we work alongside the OEMs associated with us to find the root cause (based on the analysis of data gathered by us) in case of any difference in the level of performance of our burners.

Burner India’s dealers and services agents are present in Kolkata, Guwahati, Raipur, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Jaipur, New Delhi, and Gorakhpur.