Bitumen emulsion factories operated by Denimo Tech
A/S at 2001 |
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The history
for bitumen emulsion application on road construction
and maintenance gets back to 1920. The bitumen emulsion
application have been promoted on since 1953 in order
to be used on freeway, highway, main road subways and
country road construction by using of cold asphalt, different
types of protecting asphalt, surface covering, road maintenance
and improvement.
The bitumen emulsion has lots of advantages like more
safety, providence in expense, diversity on application,
providence in energy consumption, reduction of air pollution
and saving the living environment. The products also
can be used in wet surface. The bitumen emulsion without
losing it's adherence can spread on stony surface etc… |
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The bitumen is rigid or semi rigid
within ambient temperature which has NO sufficient application
but can be used through any of following ways: |
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- Bitumen heating.
- Mixing of bitumen with
petroleum solvent (solvent bitumen) .
- Mixing of bitumen with water to get the
emulsified bitumen.
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The 1 st option is normally is used for high capacity tasks.
The second option is normally expensive as it causes
wasting of petroleum solvents, pollution in living
environment with hydrocarbon especially in cities.
Implementation of stated option has to be fulfilled
in suitable seasons by using dry sands but NOT
wet.
The application of bitumen emulsion as per to consumption
is different whereas should have special specification. For
example there is difference in between bitumen emulsion which
is used among two layers of asphalt and the bitumen emulsion
to be used for preparation of cold asphalt compound. |
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Bitumen emulsion structure and specification |
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The emulsifier are contained of two un-mixable materials
one granule type in liquid nominated as internal un-continuance
phase whereas the other one as continued external phase.
The emulsifiers in terms on types of the phase are divided
in two branches as water in oil and oil in water.
There are different ways to identify which one is continued
phase and which one in un-continued phase.
To provide balance in between internal as well as external
phases on emulsifiers or in other word to produce the
emulsifier and maintain of their stability in suspending
situation, some additives will be added to compounds.
This additive is called emulsifier or emulsion producer.
Some time may look necessary to increase the permanency
of emulsifier; hence to achieve, another type of material
called resistant gets added to emulsifier.
The bitumen emulsion is a compound consists of water
and bitumen gets produced by emulsifier. The bitumen
in fact does not get solvent in water turns in to very
small granule particular suspender in water.
The bitumen emulsion granule particulars diameters are
variable from 0.01 – 0.001 mm which are bigger than real
liquid suspenders .
The emulsifier color is brown before usage whereas gets
black after breakage.
The bitumen emulsion is basically known as oil in water
which the bitumen gets suspender in water.
In such kind of bitumen emulsifiers, the amount of bitumen
depends upon the consumption which usually in production
manuals differs from 55 to 65%.
When the amount of bitumen in emulsion reaches to max.
Margin, the bitumen granule particular get close together
without any change on particular which then stick to
each other so as the water in between turns the to act
as globule providing water in oil type bitumen emulsion.
Such kind of emulsion has same reaction as other bitumen
and the amount of bitumen is between 70 – 80 percent.
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The bitumen emulsion in terms of breakage
speed and suspender particular's electrifying divided
in 3 followings: |
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- Un-stable bitumen emulsion .
- Semi-stable bitumen emulsion .
- Stable bitumen emulsion.
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1. the Un-stable bitumen emulsion turns to break very quickly
and leaves a thin layer of bitumen. The most application
are leakage prevention using stoney construction material,
sand, surface asphalt and penetrable material. |
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2. The semi-stable bitumen emulsion does not break after
contacting with stoney whereas keeps it's configuration for
several minutes which then turns into effect. Such a kind
of semi-stable bitumen emulsion normally gets produced in
mobile factories. |
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3. The stable bitumen emulsion when gets ethereal
can be used for surface coverage, surface leakage prevention,
stone less covering and dust pacifying. |
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In term of electrifying, the bitumen emulsion
has been divided in two parts as cationic and anionic. |
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The bitumen emulsion
applications are as follows: |
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- Warm asphalt compound .
- Cold asphalt compound .
- Site produced compound asphalt .
- Securing and leakage prevention asphalt
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- One layer surface covering asphalt.
- Multi layer surface covering asphalt.
- Stoney asphalt for Leakage prevention .
- Sandy asphalt for Leakage prevention .
- Penetrating material with small and large
space.
- different types of bitumen spraying.
- Coverage without stoney bitumen.
- Surface coverage .
- Dust pacifying .
- Desert sand pacifying.
- Crack filling.
- Instant & un-instant renovation .
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The emulsifier is a chemical material in which
gets used as an additive item in bitumen emulsion production
line. The material can be blended with bitumen meanwhile
provides temporary mixing possibility in between bitumen
and water up to spreading phase and providing surface layer
of bitumen and enabling water to get evaporated.
The main parts of equipment can get fitted in 1X20' container.
It basically mixes water , chemical material and bitumen
in booth ways either automatic or batch line.
The bitumen normally stored in tanks adjacent to the factory
and gets stored after production in emulsion tankers or could
be drained in truck to be used at site.
The process could be automatic or batch line. The operator
can select any defaulted one to pump out the expected product.
The required area for factory establishment is about 7000
Sq. m whereas the out put capacity is around 48000 ton/one
working shift per year.
The equipment software is well programmed for 8 formulas
to produce automatically or manually the 8 different products
which in fact are changeable and extendable .
The other advantage of the factory is enabling the bitumen
emulsion to be kept at least for 4 next months in tank whereas
covers all problems and limitation in which were used to
raise on transportation of warm asphalt.
The considerable point is the amount of emulsifier that
is going to be mixed with the bitumen which depends upon
the type of emulsifier for Products like PRIMAKT.
This compound is approved by affiliated sources in Iran like
ASPHALT AND BITUMEN ASSOCIATION. It's relation to raw material
importation will be too low whereas reduces approximately
less than 1% per ton on emulsion production . |
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To know about price list
and chemical formulation, please contact with Iran Office |
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