8 Factors Affecting Emulsified Asphalt

With the continuous improvement of science and technology in my country, the application and popularization of bitumen emulsion equipment are also increasing. So how to check whether the configuration meets the standards? Only products that meet the standards can bring us benefits. We must pay attention to this issue. Next, please have a detailed understanding with our factory staff:
1. First of all, we need to check the modified emulsifier. If the gap between the bitumen emulsion colloid mill of the emulsifier will become larger during operation, we need to adjust it before continuous production;
2. Analyze the problem of the modifier. Under normal circumstances, we need to check whether the amount of modifier added is accurate. The time of addition should also adjust the pH value according to the difference in water quality used. This work needs to be operated by technical personnel;
3. Another major reason is caused by the problem of the bitumen emulsion configuration itself. When producing bitumen emulsion, it is necessary to check in advance whether the bitumen material used meets the quality standards.

Synchronized gravel sealing is to use special equipment, namely a synchronous gravel sealing truck and bonding materials (modified asphalt or modified emulsified asphalt) to be spread simultaneously on the road surface, and then formed into a single layer through natural traffic rolling or tire roller rolling. A layer of asphalt gravel wearing layer, which is mainly used as the surface layer of the road, and can also be used for the surface layer construction of low-grade highways.

Abstract: Asphalt melting equipment is one of the indispensable equipment in modern road construction. Its main function is to heat a large amount of cold hard asphalt to a suitable working temperature at the construction site. Advanced asphalt melting equipment can greatly improve construction efficiency, reduce human resources and time costs, and ensure pavement quality at the same time.

To ensure good operation of asphalt melting equipment and extend its service life, regular maintenance and repairs are required. The following are specific maintenance and repair steps:
First, various parts of the equipment, including heating elements, pipes, valves, etc., need to be inspected regularly to make sure they are not worn or damaged. If any problems are found, they should be repaired or replaced immediately.

Preventive pavement maintenance is a periodic mandatory maintenance measure, which is taken to restore the pavement surface service function when the pavement structure strength is sufficient and only the surface function is attenuated. New preventive maintenance technologies such as super-viscous fiber-added low-noise micro-surfacing and synchronous gravel seal have been widely used on the main lines of national highways, and the construction effect has been widely praised by customers.
Super-viscous fiber-added low-noise micro-surfacing starts with the gradation of micro-surfacing and the main material modified emulsified asphalt. By reducing the structural depth of the micro-surfacing and changing the distribution state of the coarse and fine materials on the surface of the micro-surfacing, the driving noise is reduced, while ensuring its anti-skid performance, effectively improving its adhesion, waterproofness, durability and crack resistance, and can solve the defects of easy detachment, excessive noise and reflective cracks of ordinary micro-surfacing.

Technical features of fiber sealing equipment:
1. Zero starting strong injection technology
With more than ten years of manufacturing history of asphalt spreading trucks and asphalt gravel synchronous sealing trucks, the zero-start strong spraying technology has been accumulated for many years. The combination of time-reliable hydraulic transmission components and Meitong’s control system can make the equipment instantly start from zero. Spraying starts in line, stable and reliable.
2. Duplex sealing structure
The sealing process of this equipment is a three-layer simultaneous and continuous construction process of one layer of asphalt + one layer of fiber + one layer of asphalt, forming a layer of interactive dense network winding structure, which fully meets the user’s construction requirements.

Asphalt mixture mixing equipment is a factory-style complete set of equipment that mixes dry and heated aggregates of different particle sizes, fillers and asphalt according to the designed mix ratio at a specified temperature into a uniform mixture. It is widely used in high-grade highways and urban roads. , airports, docks, parking lots and other engineering construction. It is a key equipment for asphalt pavement construction, and its performance directly affects the quality of asphalt pavement.
Generally, there are two types of asphalt concrete mixing equipment: intermittent type and continuous type. The continuous process flow is simple and the equipment is simplified. As for the intermittent forced mixing equipment, due to the secondary screening of aggregates, various components are measured in batches, and forced stirring and mixing can reliably ensure gradation, and the measurement of powder and asphalt can also achieve very high accuracy; so the mixing equipment The asphalt mixture produced is of high quality and can meet various construction requirements.

In our daily life, we can often see emulsified asphalt equipment. Its appearance has brought us great convenience. So what is the difference between its modification process? Below, the editor will give you a brief introduction to the relevant knowledge points.
1. Emulsified asphalt equipment first emulsifies and then modifies: This is a relatively simple way to make modified emulsified asphalt. The production process is to grind hot asphalt and emulsifier soap together through a colloid mill to make ordinary emulsified asphalt, and then add latex-like modifiers to the emulsified asphalt through mechanical stirring to make modified emulsified asphalt. The characteristic of this method is that it does not require high equipment.

The main filter material of stainless steel barrel removal adopts five-layer sintered mesh. Standard five-layer calcination is made by stacking and vacuum calcining five layers of stainless steel barrel removal wire mesh. The stainless steel barrel made of it has corrosion resistance, good water permeability, high compressive strength, easy cleaning and back-cleaning, high filtration precision, hygienic and clean filter material, and stainless steel barrel removal wire mesh does not fall off.
Double-layer metal sintered mesh is a new type of filtration system with high impact toughness and overall rigidity, which is made by stacking and vacuum calcining double-layer stainless steel barrel removal wire mesh products.

Before use, please check whether the position of each valve is accurate and make preparations before work. After starting the motor of the asphalt spreading truck, check the four heat transfer oil valves and air pressure gauge. After everything is normal, start the engine and the power take-off starts to work. Try running the asphalt pump and cycle for 5 minutes. If the pump head shell is hot to your hands, slowly close the thermal oil pump valve. If the heating is insufficient, the pump will not rotate or make noise. You need to open the valve and continue to heat the asphalt pump until it can operate normally.

In the cold winter, the following points should be noted when using bitumen melter equipment:

1. Keep warm: The bitumen melter equipment needs to be operated indoors or in a place with sunshade facilities, and ensure that the temperature of the bitumen melter and the surrounding environment is kept within an appropriate range.
2. Check the bitumen melting equipment: Before use, the bitumen melter should be checked, including whether the circuit, liquid circuit and other parts of the equipment are working properly, and whether the equipment has leakage, water leakage and other conditions.
3. Pay attention to safety: During operation, protective bitumen melter equipment should be worn to avoid direct contact with hot bitumen. At the same time, avoid overloading the bitumen melter to prevent equipment damage and safety accidents.
4. Control speed: Reasonably control the working speed of the bitumen melting equipment according to weather conditions and road conditions to avoid overheating of the equipment, which may cause the bitumen to flow too quickly or burn.
5. Storage conditions: When not in use, place the equipment in a dry, ventilated and moderately warm place, and ensure that the residue in the equipment is completely cleaned.

Modified asphalt equipment is a widely used asphalt equipment. Now its ultra-high performance has been widely praised by users. However, we must first use the modified asphalt equipment safely to fully demonstrate its performance. So how much do you know about the safe use and operation of modified asphalt equipment? Today, Sinoroader will explain it in detail:
1. Placement: The modified asphalt equipment should be placed on a flat place, and the front axle wheel should be fixed with sleepers and the tires should be dangling to ensure that the machine does not move around during operation.
2. Check regularly whether the mixer blades are deformed and whether the screws are loose.
3. Check whether the running direction of the mixing barrel is consistent with the arrow. If not, please replace the positive and negative poles of the wiring.
4. Before powering on, check for empty vehicle trial operation, check for leakage, and check the idling of the mixing barrel. The normal speed is about 3 times faster when the empty vehicle is full. If the speed is wrong, stop the car for verification.
5. If the asphalt material is stopped for one hour after mixing, clean the mixing barrel, pour in clean water, and clean the mortar. Then drain the water, remember that there must be no water in the bucket to prevent the formula from changing, and even rust on the pages and other links. During use, everyone should pay attention to some small links to avoid unnecessary losses in their work.

Is the performance of Sinoroader’s fully automatic emulsified asphalt production equipment stable and unstable? To be honest, whether the performance of a product is stable or not can only be known through practice, right?
Chairman Mao, the great leader of China, once said, “Without practice, there is no right to speak.” Yes, people who have never used it naturally have no right to speak. Now the editor will talk about the fully automatic emulsified asphalt production equipment that I am using!

According to statistics, among the high-grade highways that have been built and opened to traffic in my country, about 80% are asphalt pavements. However, with the development of time, the influence of various climatic and environmental factors, and the high-intensity driving load, the asphalt pavement will have different degrees of degradation or damage. Pavement maintenance is to take effective technical means to slow down this degradation, so that the pavement can provide good service quality during its service life.

In addition to being used according to regulations, modified bitumen equipment should also be maintained regularly in order to effectively extend the service life of modified bitumen equipment. The delivery pump of modified bitumen equipment, as well as its motor and reducer, need to be maintained in accordance with the specifications of the instructions. If the modified bitumen equipment is parked for a long time, the liquid in the tank and pipeline needs to be drained, and each moving component also needs to be filled with grease. The dust in the control box of the modified bitumen equipment needs to be cleaned once every six months. A dust blower can be used to remove dust to prevent dust from entering the machine and damaging parts. The micro powder machine needs to add unsalted butter once for every 100 tons of emulsified bitumen produced.

Precautions for checking emulsified asphalt equipment
Sinoroader emulsified asphalt pavement engineering common equipment, now has gradually been widely used.
We all know that before any equipment is used, the equipment should be preliminarily inspected to check whether the installation is normal, and then put into use. The use of modified asphalt modified asphalt production equipment can also extend the peak season. The modified asphalt and stone water machine can be mixed with wet stone to form a continuous film under the surface conditions of low-temperature asphalt and stone. The viscosity of the asphalt is low and the viscosity of the emulsified asphalt is low. Wet film below 10 degrees.

From the current point of view, road construction machinery has bottomed out and asphalt meltering equipment has risen rapidly. In recent years, highway construction and maintenance departments have a strong awareness of using asphalt mixing equipment, especially in developed coastal areas such as Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, etc. In addition, these regions have a fast economic growth rate, relatively developed industry, and strong comprehensive economic strength. Therefore, the consumption of asphalt mixing equipments in these regions has always been at the forefront of the country. With the rapid development of highway construction and the increase in demand for asphalt, barreled asphalt has been widely used for its convenient transportation and easy storage. In particular, most of the high-performance imported asphalt used in high-grade highways is in barrel form, which requires an asphalt meltering equipment with fast melting speed, clean de-barreling, and can prevent asphalt aging. my country’s highway construction has achieved remarkable results, among which mechanized production has contributed greatly. Different types of asphalt mixers and bitumen meltering equipment are selected for the characteristics of large highway pavement construction and tight construction period. With the rapid development of my country’s economy, the further extension of expressways, and the large-scale development of western construction, the central and western regions have become new investment hotspots. While paying attention to the market in the developed eastern regions, domestic road construction machinery manufacturers have also increased their efforts to develop the central and western markets, creating new highlights for the domestic asphalt mixing plants consumer market. In summary, my country’s asphalt mixing plant sales market has begun to move westward with the westward movement of investment hotspots. As the market center of gravity gradually shifts westward, the market in the western region is gradually heating up. The self-heating integrated structure, hot air barrel melting and bitumen barrel flipping technology in the asphalt barrel removal equipment are our company’s self-heating integrated structure. The thermal oil furnace used in the old equipment is perfectly integrated with the asphalt barrel removal equipment body, which reduces the volume of the entire set of equipment, greatly reduces equipment investment, saves equipment space and transfer transportation costs.

With reliable performance and stable benchmark quality, Sinoroader slurry sealer is favored by customers and was once in short supply. Sinoroader slurry sealer uses emulsified asphalt, which can reduce the sensitivity of construction temperature and effectively extend the construction time. Sinoroader slurry sealer has fast molding, improves construction speed, shortens road construction time, and reduces the manpower and material resources required for construction. In addition, in terms of energy saving and consumption reduction, Sinoroader slurry sealer can be constructed at room temperature, achieving “0 release” of harmful gases, reducing air pollution, and is very green and environmentally friendly.

Emulsified asphalt can be spread by mechanical spreading and manual spreading. Different spreading methods will have different effects on pavement performance, so it is very important to choose the right spreading method. At the same time, maintenance and management after spreading are equally important to ensure the safety and durability of the pavement.
Emulsified asphalt is a common pavement material that is widely used in road construction and maintenance. There are two main ways to spread emulsified asphalt: mechanical spreading and manual spreading. Mechanical spreading generally uses a special spreading vehicle that can quickly and evenly spread emulsified asphalt. Manual spreading is carried out by workers using tools such as brushes or rollers, which is suitable for pavement treatment in small areas or special areas.
Different spreading methods also have different effects on pavement performance. Mechanical spreading can quickly complete large-area treatment and spread evenly, which is conducive to ensuring the flatness and anti-skid properties of the pavement. Manual spreading can more finely treat special areas such as shoulders and intersections to improve the overall performance of the pavement.

The container-type emulsified bitumen equipment hot-melts the base cold-mix colored bitumen and disperses it through the equipment into small cold-mix colored bitumen particles in an aqueous solution containing emulsifier to form a liquid cold-mix colored bitumen material.

Road repair Keep the road to maintain the performance of the road, restore the damaged part in time, ensure the safety, comfort and smooth driving, save transportation costs and time; Correct technical measures should be taken to improve the quality of the project, extend the service life of the road, and postpone the reconstruction time. With the performance, the damaged part is restored in time to ensure the safety, comfort and smooth driving, saving transportation costs and time; Correct technical measures should be taken to improve the quality of the project, extend the service life of the road, and postpone the reconstruction time.

The bitumen decanter equipment is mainly composed of barrel removal shell (BOX), hoisting mechanism, hydraulic booster and electrical control system. The shell is divided into two chambers, the left and right chambers. The upper chamber is a chamber for melting a large barrel of bitumen (definition: the transformation process of a substance from solid to liquid). There are heating coils evenly distributed around it.

Asphalt spreading truck is a kind of black ground construction machinery. It is an important equipment in the logistics construction of roads, municipal roads, airports and ports. This equipment is mainly used to spray different types of asphalt on the ground to meet the construction requirements of different levels of ground oil permeable layer, sticky layer, left and right permeable layer, fog permeable layer, etc.

Improve the understanding of the importance of preventive maintenance
We should further improve the understanding of the importance of preventive maintenance and raise preventive maintenance to the level of highway asset protection and road protection. At present, leaders at all levels and maintenance departments do not fully understand the significance of preventive maintenance of asphalt pavement. We should deepen our understanding of the important role of preventive maintenance and improve the strategic awareness, initiative and creativity of preventive maintenance. At the same time, the maintenance department should strengthen communication and exchanges with transportation authorities and financial management departments at all levels, so that departments at all levels understand the importance and necessity of preventive maintenance and create conditions for the implementation of preventive maintenance and funding sources. At the same time, it is very necessary to add preventive maintenance to the classification of maintenance projects, which will help the management of leaders at all levels and the implementation of preventive maintenance.
Improve the decision-making and planning of preventive maintenance
According to the decision-making and planning process, reasonably arrange the preventive maintenance of asphalt concrete pavement structure to ensure the safe and stable operation of highway projects throughout the life cycle, and reduce production costs while providing high-quality traffic services. Therefore, the key to preventive maintenance of asphalt concrete pavement structure lies in establishing a scientific decision-making and planning mechanism. The Ministry of Transport proposed in the “13th Five-Year Plan for Highway Maintenance Management Development” that the average annual mileage of preventive maintenance for expressways should not be less than 8%, and that for ordinary national and provincial roads should not be less than 5%. In the actual application process, local governments should also actively summarize experience and propose different preventive maintenance ratios based on the specific conditions of different regions.

Before use, please check whether the position of each valve is accurate and make preparations before work. After starting the motor of the asphalt spreading truck, check the four thermal oil valves and air pressure gauge. After everything is normal, start the engine and the power take-off starts to work. Try running the asphalt pump and cycle for 5 minutes. If the pump head shell is hot to your hands, slowly close the thermal oil pump valve. If the heating is insufficient, the pump will not rotate or make noise. You need to open the valve and continue to heat the asphalt pump until it can operate normally.

The hydraulic bitumen decanter equipment produced by our company uses thermal oil as the heat carrier and has its own burner for heating. The thermal oil heats, melts, debarks and dehydrates the asphalt through the heating coil. This device can ensure that the asphalt does not age, and has the advantages of high thermal efficiency, fast barrel loading/unloading speed, improved labor intensity, and reduced environmental pollution.

Asphalt emulsifiers can be divided into synthetic emulsifiers, natural emulsifiers, inorganic powder emulsifiers, etc. according to their formation. Synthetic emulsifiers are currently the most widely used. Asphalt emulsifiers are a type of organically synthesized surfactant that can emulsify asphalt.
Emulsifiers are divided into ionic and non-ionic types according to whether the hydrophilic group of the emulsifier molecule is charged when the emulsifier is dissolved in water. Ionic emulsifiers are divided into cationic and anionic types due to the different charges of the hydrophilic group after ionization in water. In addition, there are zwitterionic types.
Cationic emulsifiers are divided into three types: fast cracking, medium cracking, and slow cracking according to the speed of demulsification. Slow cracking emulsifiers are divided into slow setting and fast setting according to the length of time the mixture solidifies. Slow cracking and slow setting types are mainly used as permeable oils. Slow cracking and fast setting are used for micro-surfacing, slurry sealing, cold regeneration, etc. Medium cracking and fast cracking types are used for adhesive layer oils, gravel sealing layers, and waterproof base oils.

All kinds of base layers have the problem of strength formation and growth (Emerson). The strength is gradually generated during the curing process, and the internal structure will become more and more dense. The test shows that when the semi-rigid base layer is sprayed with penetration oil before the cement (material: powdered water-hardening inorganic cementitious material) has not yet hardened, the penetration depth is deep; with the increase of age and strength, the penetration effect of the penetration oil is getting worse and worse.
At the same time, timely spreading of penetration oil has a good retention effect on the moisture in the base layer, preventing the evaporation of moisture, ensuring the formation of the strength of the base layer, and the surface of the base layer is not easy to loosen. The penetration oil also protects the semi-rigid base layer from cracking due to exposure to the sun. Furthermore, since the base layer is no longer covered and watered for curing, the temperature inside the base layer is high, which is conducive to the growth of strength.

Emulsified asphalt equipment hot-melts basic colored asphalt and mechanically distributes tiny colored asphalt particles in an aqueous solution containing emulsifier to form a liquid colored asphalt material. The cement emulsified asphalt equipment mortar used in slab ballastless track construction uses cationic emulsified asphalt equipment. The purpose is to adjust the elasticity, toughness and durability of the cement emulsified asphalt equipment mortar. Polymers are often used to modify the asphalt.