Summarized bitumen emulsion
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High expense
operating and maintenance of warm asphalt factories and
it's detriment on living environment form one side plus
limitation on distribution and warm asphalt transportation
are the most reasons to forbid the warm asphalt consumption
worldwide as for the time being, bitumen emulsion (bitumen
with None-Kerosene solvent) and cold asphalt are considered. |
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Nowdays, some main factors in regard to quality of asphalt
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- Capability on far distance displacement.
- Possibility on usage of thin layer asphalt.
- Asphalt speading speed especially in big cities and residential
complexes which has caused obstruction on projects implementation.
- Cheap and reasonable finished price.
- Lack of confliction with the human health and living
environment parameters.
- Main factory operational speeding and possibility of
supprting the executing workshops.
- Required machinery easy maintenance and operation.
- Suitable for any kind of surface covering asphalt (street,
Highways, plane landing field).
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Nowaday, most of countries have selected bitumen emulsion
in their road construction policy as headline of their activities
wheras going to be gathered toward substituting cold asphalt
instead of warm one. |
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This production basically get used
as per to following ways: |
- Stoney road asphalt (new asphalt)
- Covering asphalt (old asphalt rehabilitation).
- Stabilising of versatile sand
- Recycling asphalt.
- The main material of bitumen emulsion consists
of: emulsifier, water, bitumen, few percentage of addetives
like kerosene and cloridric acid.
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The emulsifier is a chemical material which gets applied
in bitumen emulsion production line as an addetive. This
material has composision nature with bitumen meanwhile, provides
possibility for bitumen to get mixed temporary with water
from production stage up to spreading stage and asphalt layer
formation and water evapuration.
The main production line that provides facility for water
and chemical addetives to mix either automatical or manual
with bitumen, can be fitted in 1X20' container. The bitumen
gets stored in tanks adjecent to factory which after
production will be stored in emulsion tanks or could
be drained to tanker in order to get moved to the site.
The process can get automatically or manually implemented
with defaulted mixiting plan which the output then gets
pumped to tanks. The required land for factory establishment
is min. 7000 Sq. m and the production capacity in one
working shift will be 48000tons per annum.
The other advatage 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 considrable 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 afiliatted 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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Production in brief |
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Bitumen is the most basic raw material in road construction
industry which is used to be used for providing asphalt compounds,
securing asphalts, tak coat and prime coat, leakage isolator
cracks filller and etc… using stoney material. To access
the bitumen has to be liquidised within any of 3 following
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Bitumen heating. |
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At this methodthe bitumen turns into liquid by heating effect
which them mixex with other material .this method is an old
method not in use any more |
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Using kerosene solvent |
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On this option, solvents like petrol, petroleum
and gasolene will be added in an amount of 30 – 40 percent
to provide fast (RC), tardy (MC) and slow (SC) hardening.
Nowadays stated option are used to produce coating and cold
asphalt. |
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Usage of water as solvent |
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For different reasons like pullotion hazardous
and costy on price, while usage of petroleum solvants, most
of the countries are preferred to use bitumen emulsion or
soluble bitumen in water.
This manner is in use at nnew factory and it's technology
gets supported by some Swedish companies like AkzoNobel or
Denimo Tech. |
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Emulsion production process |
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The Bitumen emulsion can be achieved from granuled
bitumen to be dipped in water.
At this way, the bitumen which is an un-soluble petroleum
material in water gets pupmed to powerful milling machine
after getting heated. At the same time, the hot water gets
injected to the tank. The small bitumen particular dips into
tank and turns to granule.
To prevent granules NOT to stick to eachother after switching
the mixer down, a soapy material called emulsifier within
the amount of 12-3 liter per ton pending on type of the product
as CRS or SRC will be added to bitumen causing the granuled
bitumen surface to get polorized and rebuff eachother.
Hence while usage of bitumen emulsion and immediately after
mixing of bitumen emulsion with stoney material on spreading
on surface of roads the emulsifier losses it's effectivness
causing the bitumen to stick to stoney material to provide
bitumen coating meanwhile the water gets evapurated. The
different types of bitumen emulsion fall into break through
any one of fast (RC), tardy (MC) and slow (SC) breakage
depending upon breakage time.
The Bitumen emulsion production has an out put capacity of
from 5 to 40 ton per hour depending upon customer application
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The mentioned equipment are produced
in 2 type as In-Line & Batch for customers.
The vast supporting net and espousing services by AkzoNobel
and Denimo Tech A/S companies assuring the clients for gaining
successful products.
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To know about complete list of equipment, please
refer to. |
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