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Concrete is not a refill.
It is a controlled process.

A02 is designed to mix qualified printable mortar onboard, receive qualified wet material or condition characterized soil. Each path has explicit inputs, instruments and rejection rules; none is an integrated test result.

02.1 / DRY-TO-WET BASELINE

How Swovee mixes and loads its own concrete.

01RECEIVE

Keyed dry pods or supersack transfer load binder and graded sand into sealed day bins.

02VERIFY

Lot IDs, mass, moisture and recipe authorization must agree before the gates open.

03DOSE

Loss-in-weight screws meter solids while pumps meter water and admixtures.

04MIX

A continuous paddle or twin-shaft mixer wets the stream under torque and temperature monitoring.

05BUFFER

A small agitated wet hopper decouples mixer pulsation from nozzle demand without hiding material age.

06PUMP

A reversible progressive-cavity pump drives the shortest practical instrumented hose to the arm.

02.2 / REQUIRED INPUTS

Every physical input arrives with data.

INPUTPHYSICAL ENTRYRELEASE DATA
Binder

Sealed dry pod or supersack adapter

Lot ID, chemistry, fineness, age, storage history

Fine aggregate

Dry, graded 0-4 mm baseline

Gradation, moisture, density, contaminants

Process water

Onboard baffled tank or metered connection

Potability-equivalent quality, temperature, conductivity

Admixtures

Keyed cartridges into metering pumps

Product, lot, density, temperature, dose limits

Microfibers

Optional conditioned microfeeder

Length, aspect ratio, compatibility, dispersion evidence

Recipe

Signed digital material passport

Approved ratios, temperature window, open time, test method

02.3 / MEDIA ENVELOPE

What it can—and cannot—process.

BASELINEPrintable fine-aggregate mortarQualified

0-4 mm aggregate; verified pumpability, buildability, open time and interlayer behavior.

BASELINELow-carbon blended cement mortarQualified by source

Every binder or SCM source change reopens the process window.

CONDITIONALShort-fiber mortarPilot only

Fiber length and dose remain inside screw, hose and nozzle blockage evidence.

CONDITIONALStabilized screened earthTerra Kit

Lab-characterized, moisture-corrected and screened before entry; never raw excavation.

SEPARATE PATHAlkali-activated materialR&D

Requires chemically compatible wet path, handling controls and a distinct qualification.

NOT A02Coarse-aggregate concreteRejected

Aggregate above 4 mm requires a larger pump, hose, mixer and nozzle architecture.

NOT A02Conventional ready-mixRejected

Ordinary slump concrete is not automatically printable or compatible with the wet path.

NOT A02Resin, foam or thermoplasticOther toolhead

Needs thermal or chemical isolation, fumes control and a separate safety case.

02.4 / PROCESS INSTRUMENTS

The minimum evidence chain.

MASS

Load cells

Close the solid and liquid mass balance over every job.

FLOW

Metering feedback

Compare commanded and delivered liquid dose continuously.

PRESSURE

Wet-path taps

Locate restriction and detect blockage before hose or pump overload.

STATE

Torque + temperature

Expose rheology drift, cure acceleration and mechanical wear.

02.5 / CLEANOUT

Wet material must have a designed exit.

Normal close: stop dry feed, chase the mixer into the buffer, purge the pump into a capture bin, reverse the pump, remove the short hose cassette and wash inside a contained circuit.

Blocked path: isolate stored pressure, identify the segment between pressure taps, use only the approved mechanical or reversible-pump recovery, and replace the cassette when time exceeds the safe open window.

Waste custody: record prime, purge, failed coupon, wash water and hardened waste against designed onboard and site capacity.

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