Efficiency and energy consumption of bitumen melting equipment

Emulsified asphalt is made by hot melting asphalt, dispersing it in an aqueous solution containing an emulsifier in a fine particle state through mechanical action, forming an oil-in-water asphalt emulsion. In road construction and maintenance projects, emulsified asphalt can be used for road maintenance, bonding between road layers, bridge deck paving, permeable oil on cement-stabilized macadam foundation, slurry seal waterproof layer, etc. It has the advantages of cold construction, safety, environmental protection, resource conservation, energy conservation, extended construction season, and improved construction conditions. It plays a very important role in the construction and maintenance of municipal roads, especially in recent years, the improvement of the production level of emulsified asphalt has actively promoted the technological progress and promotion and application of emulsified asphalt. However, in the production and use of emulsified asphalt, undesirable phenomena such as crusting, flocculation, oil-water stratification, and agglomeration often occur, which brings unnecessary troubles to construction. To this end, the author conducted a large number of experimental studies from nine aspects, including emulsification equipment, emulsifier, base asphalt, pH value, temperature, storage temperature, mechanical action, freezing and melting, and long-term placement, and summarized the factors that affect the stability of emulsified asphalt. The analysis is as follows:

Whether it is the application of modified asphalt equipment or the application of other equipment, if you want to extend its service life, you need to do daily maintenance work. In order to better help everyone, we have modified asphalt The maintenance methods that can be adopted when using the equipment are introduced as follows:

1. Different production processes
Emulsified asphalt and asphalt are both extracted from petroleum, but their production processes are different. Asphalt is separated from crude oil by high-temperature treatment, and then processed through a series of complex processing processes such as distillation and fluidized hydrogenation. Emulsified asphalt, on the other hand, is made by adding an emulsifier, mechanical shearing or ultrasonic “emulsification” reaction, dispersing oil and water to form an emulsion, and then adding an appropriate amount of acid catalyst.
2. Different usage scenarios
Asphalt is suitable for paving in different places such as roads, bridges, airport runways, and parking lots. Emulsified asphalt is particularly suitable for use under more stringent conditions such as deep road repair and bridge deck waterproofing. Because emulsified asphalt produced by emulsification technology has better performance and can better adapt to complex usage environments.
3. Different characteristics
Asphalt is a black, viscous substance with fluffy fibers, a high melting point, high hardness, and easy aging. In comparison, emulsified asphalt is lighter in color, light gray or milky white, with moderate viscosity and uniformity, good adhesion, good water and weather resistance, and not easy to age.
4. Different use effects
Although asphalt works well on the road surface, it also has certain difficulties in construction and maintenance. Emulsified asphalt is more convenient to use and can be easily mixed with other materials during construction, so it is widely popular and has better use effects.
In summary, there are obvious differences between emulsified asphalt and asphalt in production process, usage scenarios, characteristics, and use effects, and appropriate materials need to be selected according to different needs.

Stainless steel bitumen melters use bitumen concrete micro-powder machines. Its blade strength is high, the angular velocity of the moving disc is high, and the gap can be adjusted to 0.15mm. Stainless steel bitumen melters are suitable for the production and processing of various polymer bitumen concrete, such as SBS, PE, EVA, etc.
Stainless steel bitumen melters use independently developed special batching tanks, stainless steel bitumen melter force stirring devices, liquid level meter overflow prevention equipment, granular material dosage and equipment, liquid additive automatic addition equipment and other production key points. It ensures the full-position process guarantee for the stainless steel bitumen melter of the bitumen concrete production line. The stainless steel bitumen melter processing stainless steel bitumen melter rate is significantly increased, and the quality of stainless steel bitumen melters is greatly improved.

With the increase in the service life of road networks in various regions, how to extend the service life of roads has become an urgent problem that needs to be solved. At present, there are many ways to renovate and reinforce asphalt roads, and they are also relatively mature, such as cold regeneration technology, micro-surfacing technology, fine surfacing technology, fog sealing technology, etc., which can greatly increase the service life of roads.
With the increase in the service life of road networks in various regions, how to extend the service life of roads has become an urgent problem that needs to be solved. At present, there are many ways to renovate and reinforce asphalt roads, and they are also relatively mature, such as cold regeneration technology, micro-surfacing technology, fine surfacing technology, fog sealing technology, etc., which can greatly increase the service life of roads.

Asphalt spreading trucks are used to spread the permeable oil layer, waterproof layer and bonding layer of the bottom layer of asphalt pavement on high-grade highways. It can also be used in the construction of county and township-level highway asphalt roads that implement layered paving technology. It consists of a car chassis, an asphalt tank, an asphalt pumping and spraying system, a thermal oil heating system, a hydraulic system, a combustion system, a control system, a pneumatic system, and an operating platform.

As a black road construction machinery, the synchronous chip sealer is the main equipment for highways, urban roads, airports, and port terminal facilities. Do you know what kind of synchronous chip sealer? What products do you have to choose from?
Asphalt dispensers are classified according to the purpose, operation mode, and drive mode of the asphalt pump. According to the purpose, asphalt dispensers can be divided into two types: road use and road construction use. The asphalt tank capacity of the asphalt dispenser used for road construction generally does not exceed 400L, while the asphalt tank capacity of the asphalt dispenser used for road construction is 3000-20000L.

The advantages of Sinoroader bitumen decanter equipment over similar domestic equipment are reflected in the following points:
1. The equipment produces 8-10t/hour, with an automatic telescopic sealed container structure. It uses an electric hoist to lift the asphalt barrel at the inlet guide tube. Start to control the hydraulic cart forward button, which will promote the barrel push (push and slide into the barrel). It is a 1300mm hydraulic cylinder with a 7.5-ton top thrust. The device has a beautiful appearance, reasonable layout, compactness, stable performance, and is suitable for production under various industrial and mining conditions.
2. Fast barrel removal: According to the principle of layered heating, it adopts four-layer thermal oil heating technology, a single inlet and outlet, and high thermal efficiency of heating; at the same time, it uses the waste heat of combustion gas for two heatings and efficient use of energy; the barrel body uses high-quality rock wool insulation material.
3. Good environmental protection: closed structure, no pollution.
4. No barrel hanging: The upper part of the asphalt barrel is hot, and each is directly affected by the thermal oil heating pipe. The barrel wall directly receives the heat dissipation of the heating coil, and the barrel is clean and fast, which will not cause waste of asphalt barrel hanging.
5. Strong adaptability: Suitable for imported and domestic barrels, and the deformation of asphalt barrels will not affect production.
6. Good dehydration: Use a large-displacement asphalt pump for internal circulation, stirring, water vapor overflows, and is naturally discharged from the exhaust port. After dehydration, asphalt can be directly used to produce asphalt mixture or used as matrix asphalt.
7. Automatic slag removal: This set of equipment has an automatic slag removal function. The filter device sets the asphalt circulation pipeline through the filter, which can automatically remove the barreled asphalt slag.
8. Safe and reliable: The equipment adopts an automatic control system, an automatic ignition burner import, can automatically control the temperature according to the temperature, and is equipped with corresponding monitoring instruments.
9. Convenient relocation: The whole machine is assembled with large components, which is easy to move and quick to assemble.

Asphalt spreader vehicle is an intelligent and automated high-tech product that specializes in spreading emulsified asphalt, diluted asphalt, hot asphalt, high-viscosity modified asphalt, etc.
Asphalt spreader is used for spreading the penetration oil, waterproof layer, and bonding layer of the bottom layer of the asphalt pavement of high-grade highways. The spreader consists of a car chassis, an asphalt tank, an asphalt pumping and spraying system, a thermal oil heating system, a hydraulic system, an ignition system, a control system, a pneumatic system, and an operating platform.
Asphalt spreader is cumbersome to operate. On the basis of absorbing various technologies of similar products at home and abroad, it increases the quality technology content of construction and the humanized design of outstanding improvement of construction conditions and construction environment. Its reasonable and reliable design ensures the uniformity of asphalt spreading, the computer control is stable and reliable, and the technical performance of the whole vehicle has reached an advanced level.

Asphalt distributor is a kind of black road construction machinery. It is the main equipment for highway, urban road, airport and port wharf construction. The equipment is mainly used for spraying different kinds of bituminous pavement to meet the construction requirements of different grades of pavement penetration layer, sticky layer, up and down seal layer, fog seal layer and so on.
However, the effect of some asphalt sprinkles on the market is not satisfactory, and there will be a phenomenon of uneven distribution of the transverse distribution. At this time, a certain measure is adopted to effectively improve the transverse uniformity of asphalt spreading.

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.

After the emulsified bitumen equipment has been used for a long time, it needs maintenance. There are several points to note when adjusting the emulsified bitumen equipment:
1. During use, regular maintenance should be carried out as appropriate according to the processing materials;
2. For the maintenance and use of the motor, please refer to the motor manual;
3. Most of the random spare parts are national standard and department standard parts, which are purchased all over the country;
4. The colloid mill is a high-precision machine with a line speed of up to 20m/second and a very small grinding disc gap. After inspection and reinstallation, the coaxiality error between the housing and the main shaft must be corrected with a dial indicator ≤0.05mm;
5. When repairing the machine, it is not allowed to be directly knocked with an iron bell during the disassembly, reinstallation and adjustment process. Use a wooden hammer or a wooden block to knock gently to avoid damaging the parts;
6. The machine seals: divided into static and dynamic seals. The static seal uses an O-type rubber ring and the dynamic seal uses a hard mechanical combined seal. If the hard sealing surface is scratched, it should be repaired by grinding on flat glass or flat casting immediately. The grinding material should be ≥200# silicon carbide grinding paste. If the seal is damaged or cracked seriously, please replace it immediately.

Energy conservation and environmental protection are also excellent ways for Chinese companies to break down foreign trade barriers. By the end of 2011, the annual fuel consumption of my country’s construction machinery products exceeded the total annual output value of construction machinery. Currently, market entry barriers in countries like the United States and Japan are rising, and emission standards are a primary concern among these trade barriers. Industry experts believe that energy conservation and emission reduction in the construction machinery industry are challenging, often hindered by technical bottlenecks. Therefore, increasing research and development efforts is an effective way to address this situation. Energy conservation and environmental protection are the inevitable trends in the development of China’s construction machinery industry.
Whether it is to reduce environmental burdens or break down foreign trade barriers, energy conservation and environmental protection will become the mainstream trend in the development of construction machinery. The future development of China’s construction machinery industry will place greater emphasis on transformation and upgrading, and energy conservation and environmental protection will be a key focus in its implementation strategies. Currently, construction machinery manufacturers are incorporating more energy-saving and environmental protection elements into their new products. At the just-concluded biennial Shanghai Bauma Show, renowned international construction machinery companies like Komatsu, Hyundai, and Volvo Construction Equipment, as well as Chinese construction machinery giants like Sany, XCMG, Zoomlion, and Liugong, showcased their latest equipment, all boasting enhanced energy-saving and environmental performance. This demonstrates that the future of construction machinery will inevitably be dominated by energy conservation and environmental protection. Construction machinery companies must prioritize their own efforts to achieve higher product efficiency and superior energy-saving and consumption-reduction performance.

Asphalt emulsifier is an emulsifier that belongs to the category of surfactants and is a raw material for the production of emulsified asphalt.
Emulsifiers are divided into: synthetic emulsifiers, natural emulsifiers, inorganic powder emulsifiers, etc. Currently, synthetic emulsifiers are widely used. Asphalt emulsifier is a type of chemical organically synthesized surfactant.

Emulsified asphalt equipment is a special equipment for producing emulsified asphalt. The emulsified asphalt produced by emulsified asphalt equipment is used in many industries. I wonder how much you know about the emulsified asphalt produced by emulsified asphalt equipment. Let’s take a look at them one by one:
Slurry seal is a cold mix asphalt mixture with the advantages of aggregate and asphalt mixing. Under normal circumstances, similar graded slurry seal has a higher modulus than hot mix asphalt mixture, so it is often used to fill road rutting. The higher stability has a higher resistance to deformation. The mixture is usually composed of harder fine aggregate grading and wear-resistant aggregate with high sand equivalent, especially micro-seal and polymer-modified seal. This greatly increases the strength and integrity of the road surface. This makes the road surface have high wear resistance and excellent deformation resistance. Emulsified asphalt emulsion is also easy to use on a mobile slurry seal paver, where mixing and admixtures are used for chemical control to meet maintenance needs.

Highway preventive maintenance construction methods and application scenarios are key measures to ensure the long-term performance of highways and extend their service life. The following are common construction methods and their application scenarios:
1. Micro-surfacing
Construction method: Mix emulsified asphalt, aggregate, filler, etc. and spread them on the road surface to form a thin layer of protection.
Application scenario: Suitable for roads with slight cracks and slight rutting, which can effectively prevent water and slip and delay aging.
2. Slurry seal
Construction method: Spread with emulsified asphalt, aggregate and other mixtures to form a thicker protective layer.
Application scenario: Suitable for moderate cracks and rutting, with significant waterproof and anti-slip effects, and often used on roads with heavy traffic.
3. Mist seal
Construction method: Spray emulsified asphalt or regeneration agent to penetrate the road surface and restore the asphalt performance.
Application scenario: Suitable for aging and slightly cracked roads, which can effectively seal small cracks and delay further damage.
4. Chip seal
Construction method: first spray asphalt, then cover with gravel, and roll to form a protective layer.
Application scenario: suitable for moderately damaged roads, with good waterproof and anti-skid effects, often used in rural or low-traffic roads.
5. Thin layer overlay
Construction method: lay a thin layer of hot-mixed asphalt mixture to form a new pavement layer.
Application scenario: suitable for moderate cracks and rutting, which can significantly improve the smoothness and anti-skid performance of the road surface.
6. Crack sealing
Construction method: use asphalt or rubber materials to fill cracks to prevent water penetration.
Application scenario: suitable for roads with obvious cracks, which can effectively prevent crack expansion and water intrusion.
7. Pavement regeneration
Construction method: reuse old pavement materials through cold regeneration or hot regeneration technology.
Application scenario: suitable for roads with large-scale damage, which can save materials and extend service life.
8. Local repair
Construction method: repair the local damaged area to restore the smoothness of the road surface.
Application scenarios: Suitable for local potholes, cracks, etc., and can quickly restore the function of the road surface.
9. Anti-skid treatment
Construction method: Improve the friction coefficient of the road surface by grooving or laying an anti-skid layer.
Application scenarios: Suitable for slippery sections, such as curves and ramps, which can significantly improve driving safety.
10. Drainage treatment
Construction method: Improve drainage facilities, such as adding drainage ditches and permeable pavements.
Application scenarios: Suitable for sections with serious water accumulation, which can effectively prevent water damage and extend the life of the road surface.
Summary
There are various methods for highway preventive maintenance construction, and the selection should be based on comprehensive considerations of factors such as the degree of road damage, traffic volume, and climate. Reasonable preventive maintenance can not only extend the life of the road, but also improve driving safety and comfort.

Asphalt anti-sticking release agent is a product used in the construction of hot asphalt mixture to solve the asphalt anti-sticking problem. It is used to replace diesel and vegetable oil! There are all kinds of things about the effect of asphalt anti-sticking release agent. How to use asphalt anti-sticking release agent?
Before use, stir the release agent evenly, spray or apply the original liquid evenly on the surface of construction equipment such as rubber-wheeled rollers, transport carriages, paver hoppers, ironing plates, etc.; or add water to the roller water tank after dilution, stir evenly and spray automatically for use.
When preparing to start construction, when the roller tires are cool or the temperature is low, you should first apply the roller tires with the release agent original liquid, and then start rolling. At the beginning, you need to apply more release agent. After the temperature of the tires rises, you can apply it normally or less. If you use intermittent spraying of release agent, you should spray more frequently at the beginning of construction.
When adding water, we recommend a ratio of 10-15 times. It will be better to use 10 times the water ratio. If you think the cost is high and want to add more water, it is also possible, but try to use less than 15 times the water ratio. If it is modified asphalt, it is recommended to use less than 8 times, and 7 times the water ratio is recommended.

With the rapid development of highway construction and the increase in demand for asphalt, barreled bitumen has been widely used for its convenient transportation and easy storage. In particular, most of the high-performance imported bitumen used in high-grade highways is in barrel form, which requires an bitumen melter equipment with fast melting speed, clean debarreling, and prevention of asphalt aging.
The upper part of the debarreler of the bitumen melter equipment is hotter, and each barrel is directly heated by the heat transfer oil coil. The barrel wall directly bears the heat radiation of the heating coil. The asphalt is cleanly and sensitively debarreled, and there will be no waste of asphalt hanging barrels. According to the principle of layered heating, four-layer heating technology is adopted, with single inlet and single outlet of heat transfer oil, and high thermal efficiency of heating; at the same time, the waste heat of combustion exhaust gas is used for secondary heating, and power is effectively used; the debarreler body is insulated with high-quality rock wool material. It is suitable for various types of imported and domestic barrels, and the deformation of asphalt barrels will not affect production.

There are many types of emulsified bitumen, and PC-2 is one of them, which is a spray-type emulsified bitumen. It is used for spraying oil through the base layer of granular materials and health care spraying on semi-rigid base layers. There is also the PA-2 type, which has the same purpose as the PC-2 type. The difference is that the PC-2 type is a cation, while the PA-2 type is an anion.

Everyone has a side of themselves that they don’t want others to know. As a preventive road maintenance technology, slurry sealing has some shortcomings. do you think so?
Slurry seal is a kind of road protection that uses special equipment to mix emulsified asphalt, water, additives, aggregates, fillers and other ingredients in a certain proportion, and then mixes the slurry mixture onto the original road surface to form a thin layer. Maintenance technology. These are all well known. The editor will not go into details on this.

According to the configuration, layout and controllability of bitumen melting equipment, bitumen melting plant can be divided into three types: mobile, transportable and portable. What should be paid attention to in the production of bitumen melter equipment of different sizes? Let’s learn about it below!
Bitumen melting plant is to fix the demulsifier mixing equipment, black anti-static tweezers, asphalt pump, automatic control system, etc. on a special support chassis. Because the bitumen melter equipment can directly change the production site, it is suitable for the production of emulsion bitumen in construction sites with decentralized projects, small usage and frequent movement.
The main components of the bitumen melting equipments are installed in one or two 60 standard containers. The bitumen melting plant is loaded and transported separately to complete the relocation of the construction site. With the help of asphalt melting equipments hoisting equipment, it is quickly installed and put into operation. Such bitumen melter plant has large, medium and small different configurations, which can meet different project requirements.

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.

The viscosity of the drum bitumen decanter equipment decreases as the temperature increases during the production process. Its output viscosity is about twice as high as every 12°C increase. During production, the base bitumen decanter equipment must first be heated to a liquid state and then emulsified. In order to better integrate the emulsification ability of colloid milling, the viscosity of base bitumen decanter is generally controlled to be about 200 cst. The lower the temperature, the higher the viscosity, which increases the pressure on the bitumen decanter pump and colloid milling, making emulsification impossible: However, on the other hand, in order to prevent the bitumen decanter equipment from weaning when the moisture of the finished product evaporates, it is impossible to heat the base asphalt barrel removal temperature too high, and generally use a colloid grinding inlet and outlet system. The finished product temperature should be below 85°C.

Asphalt used to pave roads. It can be obtained by regular vacuum distillation of crude oil with appropriate properties, and can also be obtained by shallow oxidation of vacuum residue or propane deasphalting process. It can also be prepared by mixing asphalt of different duction and injection degree

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.

There are many ways to heat bitumen, including using fire source heating, electric heating, steam heating, hot water heating and indirect heating. Fire source heating generates heat by burning fuel to heat the bitumen to a molten state. Electric heating converts electrical energy into thermal energy through electric heating elements to heat the bitumen to a molten state. Steam heating transfers heat to bitumen through steam, heating the bitumen to a molten state. Hot water heating transfers heat to the bitumen through hot water, heating the bitumen to a molten state. Indirect heating transfers heat to the heating medium, which then transfers the heat to the bitumen to heat the bitumen to a molten state.

Synchronous gravel sealing technology refers to the use of special synchronous gravel sealing truck equipment to lay and roll prepared gravel, asphalt and other materials to build a single layer of asphalt gravel wearing layer, which is important for highway pavement. protection of. From the perspective of characteristics, it is simple and easy to implement. It has obvious effects on the prevention of highway diseases, problem solving, later maintenance, and improvement of grade protection. It can also well extend the service life of highways.

The viscosity of emulsified asphalt equipment decreases with the increase of temperature during the production process. The power viscosity of emulsified asphalt equipment is about twice as high as every 12℃ increase. During processing, the culture medium asphalt barrel should be heated to liquid before demulsification. In order to better integrate the demulsification emulsified asphalt equipment capacity of the colloid solution mill, the culture medium asphalt barrel power viscosity is generally controlled to be about 200cst. The lower the temperature, the higher the viscosity, which increases the pressure of the asphalt barrel pump and the colloid solution mill, and the emulsion cannot be demulsified. However, on the other hand, in order to prevent the emulsified asphalt equipment from weaning when the finished product water evaporates, it is unlikely to overheat the culture medium asphalt barrel temperature. Generally, the finished product temperature at the inlet and outlet of the colloid solution mill should be less than 85℃.
One of the important methods to control the temperature and viscosity of emulsified asphalt equipment during processing is based on this. Everyone must carry out scientific operation according to the instructions of the emulsified asphalt equipment, so that the characteristics of the emulsified asphalt equipment can be fully presented. The development trend of the drying theory of emulsified asphalt equipment requires the stone resources to be processed, dried and heated. The reason for the emulsified asphalt equipment is that the quality of wet raw materials does not meet the requirements of asphalt mixture production and processing technology equipment companies.

Synchronous gravel sealer fog sealer is a method of road maintenance. Some roads have network cracks, cracks and holes after a few years of use. The effective method is fog seal technology. The cost is very low. After the fog seal, due to the large fluidity of the material, it can penetrate into the aggregate and flow into the cracks to “transfuse” the road surface, restore the asphalt adhesion of the road surface, fill small cracks and gaps, prevent water from penetrating the road surface, and keep the road surface performance for 2 to 3 years, delaying the high maintenance cost and improving the economic benefits.