EP0149848A2 - Verfahren und Anlage zum Heissregenerieren und Wiederverwenden an Ort und Stelle von alten Strassendecken - Google Patents

Verfahren und Anlage zum Heissregenerieren und Wiederverwenden an Ort und Stelle von alten Strassendecken Download PDF

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EP0149848A2
EP0149848A2 EP84116386A EP84116386A EP0149848A2 EP 0149848 A2 EP0149848 A2 EP 0149848A2 EP 84116386 A EP84116386 A EP 84116386A EP 84116386 A EP84116386 A EP 84116386A EP 0149848 A2 EP0149848 A2 EP 0149848A2
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C23/00—Auxiliary devices or arrangements for constructing, repairing, reconditioning, or taking-up road or like surfaces
    • E01C23/06—Devices or arrangements for working the finished surface; Devices for repairing or reconditioning the surface of damaged paving; Recycling in place or on the road
    • E01C23/065—Recycling in place or on the road, i.e. hot or cold reprocessing of paving in situ or on the traffic surface, with or without adding virgin material or lifting of salvaged material; Repairs or resurfacing involving at least partial reprocessing of the existing paving
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01C—CONSTRUCTION OF, OR SURFACES FOR, ROADS, SPORTS GROUNDS, OR THE LIKE; MACHINES OR AUXILIARY TOOLS FOR CONSTRUCTION OR REPAIR
    • E01C19/00—Machines, tools or auxiliary devices for preparing or distributing paving materials, for working the placed materials, or for forming, consolidating, or finishing the paving
    • E01C19/46—Machines, tools or auxiliary devices for preparing or distributing paving materials, for working the placed materials, or for forming, consolidating, or finishing the paving for preparing and placing the materials, e.g. slurry seals
    • E01C19/463—Bituminous mixtures of which at least part of the solid ingredients has previously been deposited on the surface, e.g. with lifting of spread or windrowed aggregate

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  • the present invention relates to a process by which the crust of worn road pavings is hot regenerated and recycled in situ, by utilizing again the bituminous concrete already forming said crust.
  • the invention also covers the self-propelled plant apt to carry out said process.
  • the solution a) is still adopted at present for road network, excluding motor-ways, and inside inhabited areas.
  • the drawbacks connected with an excessive overall thickness of the road coating and with its consequent minor stability are more tolerable than those connected with a complete reconstruction of the roadway.
  • Said solution tends to be abandoned and replaced by one of the undermentioned solutions.
  • the solution b) has been largely adopted in the past years, especially on roads and motor-ways with heavy traffic. It has however some fundamental defects, which are now limiting its application only to roads which, owing to their characteristics of narrowness and tortuosity, do not allow an easy access to the more bulky means typical of the solution c).
  • the worn surface layer is removed through the action of a machine equipped with a rotary drum having scarifying teeth, which cold-crumbles the road surface, removing the lumpy layer.
  • This system has the drawback of crushing the removed aggregates, thereby modifying their granulometric curve; it moreover allows only a partial recovery of the removed material, owing to the characteristics of the existing plants which, for a proper operation, require the addition of considerable percentages of "fresh" aggregates without bitumen.
  • the material has to be loaded onto lorries and transferred to the site of the plants which are designed to produce the bituminous concrete.
  • suitably mixed with new material in a proportion varying between 30-50%, through a firing, bituminization and mixing process, it again acquires the characteristics proper to a newly produced bituminous concrete.
  • it must evidently be retransferred on the site of use and laid with the normal finishing machines.
  • the solution c) is finally that being considered as the most appropriate for use on roads of wide dimensions and heavy traffic. It in fact involves the use of a single self-propelled plant, having to be supplied with new materials only to a limited extent, considering that the hot-removal does not crush the aggregates and hence keeps unaltered the granulometric curve of the starting bituminous concrete. The works can be totally carried out on a single lane, thus notably limiting, as far as time and space, the obstacles to the traffic of normal vehicles.
  • the Swiss Patent simply provides for the plant which recycles the removed bituminous concrete to be mounted on self-propelled means.
  • the worn bituminous concrete, removed by known means, is worked out anew in said movable plant with the addition of an asphaltic concrete, and then laid out again on the road surface by conventional means.
  • the worn surface layer is heated, milled, collected at the centre of the lane being worked by a cylinder with two convergent screws, conveyed into a mixing drum, mixed with the integrating material and newly laid on the roadway for subsequent levelling and tamping.
  • heating is carried out partly in front of the milling cutter and partly behind it, just to increase the temperature of the removed material in order to favour its subsequent mixing inside the drum. It is hence an average temperature and low penetration heating.
  • the milled material therefore suffers from the drawbacks of "cold" milling, particularly for what concerns the variation of the granulometric curve of the aggregates.
  • the German Patent describes a recycling plant utilizing as heat source an electronic microwave system.
  • Some of the different embodiments illustrated therein provide for the mixing in situ carried out by the actual scarifying tools, with consequent easy forming of canalizations of the removed material.
  • the heating is low (T 100°C) and this causes the problem of the aggregates getting crushed by the scarifying blades, with consequent variation of the granulometric curve.
  • the device anyhow requires very high quantities of energy and is thus used mainly for repairing single road sections or patches, which are particularly worn. There is no possibility to add integrating aggregates.
  • the European Patent application describes a process in which the worn road coating is heated by a set of radiating panels and scarified by fixed blades.
  • the removed material is mixed on site with simultaneous addition of integrating material and is then levelled and tamped with traditional methods.
  • the mixing operation is carried out by means of a linear set of several mixing arms (3 in the drawing), positioned in the running direction of the machine and alternately moving sideways, in order to cover the whole width of the working area.
  • the object of the present invention is therefore to provide an improved process which, starting from the technological results obtained by the processes belonging to the second group of the aforementioned solution c), is apt to eliminate the above drawbacks, allowing to form a regenerated road coating having characteristics such as to make it undistinguishable from a newly constructed coating.
  • the object of the present invention is also, in particular, to obtain a more efficient mixing between the integrating material and the removed material, allowing furthermore to work at further depths than it has been possible to do so far, for instance down to a depth of 8 cm.
  • Said process is preferably carried out by means of a plant, characterized in that it comprises, starting from its front, a first self-propelled machine providing to support, move forward and operate a combustible gas tank and two sets of heating panels, and a second self-propelled machine providing to support, move forward and operate a third set of heating panels, a charging hopper of the integrating material, a tank for the asphaltic concrete, a combustible gas tank, scarifying tools, a moving gang of mixers of the removed material with the integrating material, members for levelling and tamping said materials, and a charging hopper of the roughening material, and in that said charging hopper of the integrating material is positioned after the sets of heating panels and before the scarifying tools.
  • the plant first of all comprises a system for heating the road coating, formed of several sets of known type metallic panels (diagrammatically illustrated in figure 1 by one panel for each set), onto which panels are installed means for producing infrared rays, consisting for instance of a set of propane gas burners.
  • the panels 1 (fig. 1) are driven forward by a self-propelled machine 2, which also comprises a combustible gas tank 3 feeding the burners.
  • the same self-propelled machine 2 also tows a second set of panels 4, apt to continue heating the bituminous concrete forming the road coating to be recycled.
  • the panels move forward, spaced by about 10 to 20 cm from the road surface to be heated.
  • a third set of heating panels 5 is finally driven forward by the main operating machine 6, having a scarifying and recycling function. All the sets of panels are intercalated with panels having no heating elements, but provided with an insulating and reflecting screen.
  • the integration of the aggregates contained in the paving layer to be regenerated takes place after the heating by the sets of panels. Said integration is obtained by means of a hopper 7, driven forward by the machine 6 and positioned between this latter and the set of heating panels 5.
  • the machine 6 comprises a cylindrical scarifying cutter 8 working on the material forming the road paving, a plant 9 for the addition of asphaltic concrete, a gang of mixers 10 with rotating arms, and a device 11 for levelling the recycled and regenerated material, followed by a normal compactor.
  • a second hopper 7' identical to the hopper 7, can be optionally towed by the machine 6, said second hopper being designed to contain aggregates for roughening the finished road coating. In this case, such aggregates are spread out onto the regenerated surface, which subsequently undergoes an additional and final tamping by means of a road roller 13.
  • FIGS 2 and 3 show part of a set of panels 1, provided with wheels 14, which move forward driven by the self-propelled machine along the paving to be recycled.
  • Each of the panels is articulated in 15 to the following panel and it carries the heating elements with infrared rays at a height of 10 to 12 cm from the ground.
  • the panels have side curtains 16 (fig. 4), made of thermally insulating material and preventing outward losses of heat from the sides.
  • some of these panels do not have elements with infrared rays producing heat, but are instead provided with a thermally insulating and reflecting screen 17 (fig.
  • the reflecting panels have their insulating and reflecting screen 17 (fig. 5) at a height of about 5 cm from the surface of the paving to be recycled. This arrangement favours the penetration of heat inside the road coating, simultaneously preventing the coating surface from getting overheated at temperatures which could impair the cortical part of the paving.
  • the length and number of the panels are calculated on the basis of the plant running speed, so that the aggregate mass included in the layer extending down to a depth of, for irstance, at least 8 cm, may be subjected to a temperature increase of about 100°C in a lapse of time, reckoned as optimal, of about 30 minutes.
  • a pair of steering wheels is mounted between the sets of successive panels, in conventional manner, to allow tt.e assembly to move forward on road bends.
  • Said hopper 7 comprises a rotating distributor 18, which is caused to rotate by the self-contained propeling unit 19 positioned outside said hopper, and it moves forward onto the surface previously heated at its highest temperature.
  • the propelling unit 19 comprises an explosion engine which operates an oleodynamic: pump feeding in turn a hydraulic geared motor.
  • the heated surface of the road coating will transmit part of its own heat to the material distributed by the hopper.
  • a double advantage is obtained: on one hand, to heat the integrating aggregate which, when getting mixed, thus reaches the most appropriate temperature for a proper working process, by utilizing the heat excess on the coating surface; on the other hand, to obtain a first very efficient mixing between the removed material and the integrating material, thanks to the subsequent action of the cutter 8 which follows.
  • the scarifying and recycling machine 6 is illustrated in figures 8 and 9. It consists of a self-propelled vehicle, for instance a tracked vehicle, which drives forward the front panels 5 and the hopper 7.
  • Said machine comprises a combustible gas tank 20, required to feed burners arranged inside the panels, a driving seat 21, with seats 22 for auxiliary personnel and, in the rear part, the scarifying cylindrical cutter 8, the plant 9 for adding the asphaltic concrete, the mixers 10, the rake 11 for levelling the recycled material, and the tamping bar 12.
  • a combustible gas tank 20 required to feed burners arranged inside the panels, a driving seat 21, with seats 22 for auxiliary personnel and, in the rear part, the scarifying cylindrical cutter 8, the plant 9 for adding the asphaltic concrete, the mixers 10, the rake 11 for levelling the recycled material, and the tamping bar 12.
  • scarifying cutter or cutters 8 precede the rotary mixers 10, onto which drops the spray of required additional asphaltic concrete, through the pipe 27.
  • the rotary mixers 10 are positioned in a gang on two parallel rows, each comprising at least three and preferably four mixers and being arranged along the running direction of the machine. Said gang moves alternately from one side to the other of the lane being worked, and the left row mixers 10 (looking from the rear side of the machine) rotate anticlockwise, while the right row mixers rotate clockwise.
  • This arrangement allows to obtain far more satisfactory mixing results than those obtained with the known technique, wherein - as already mentioned - the mixers consist of a single moving row of rotary members or comprise fixed members, and in particular it allows a perfect sharpening and trimming of the edges formed between the lane being worked and the adjacent lanes, thereby guaranteeing a perfect grip of the recycled layer also in correspondence of this particularly difficult position.
  • the perfect trimming of the aforementioned edges can be improved even further by mounting two small vertical cutters (not shown) just downstream of the cylindrical cutter and before the mixers, which are designed to make the surface of said edges perfectly vertical.
  • the piston 23 thrusts the scarifying cutter 8 down to the desired depth, extending at least as far as 8 cm.
  • the use of the cutter 8, in replacement of the conventional fixed blades mounted on machines of known technique, has been made possible thanks to the particular type of heating adopted, allowing the high temperatures (120°C) to penetrate more deeply inside the road coating. This prevents the action of the cutter from causing the usual crushing effect of the aggregates, whereby the granulometric curve - as resulting from the tests on the core samples drawn from said coating - keeps perfectly unaltered.
  • the articulated joint 24 connects the carriage 25 - onto which are mounted the rotors of the mixers 10, the motor 26 for controlling said rotors, and the pipe 27 for spraying the asphaltic concrete - with the front part of the machine, onto which is mounted the scarifying cutter 8.
  • Figures 10 to 12 show some details of the scarifying cutter 8, which can be formed of a plurality of mutually connected rollers, as 8' and 8" in figures 10 and 11, caused to rotate by the chain 28 (fig. 11) and provided with teeth 29.
  • the frame 30 (fig. 12) onto which is mounted the scarifying cutter 8, is articulated in 31 and thrust downwardly to the wanted depth by the piston 23.
  • the levelling rake 11 acts in known manner to evenly distribute the regenerated bituminous concrete onto the road surface, and it is followed by the tamping bar 12 which provides for the final settlement of the new recycled coating.
  • Said coating can then be subjected - as already said - to the normal finishing operations, particularly roughening and rolling operations, according to the known techniques now adopted in this field.

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FR2634502A1 (fr) * 1988-07-21 1990-01-26 France Littoral Sa Route Prechauffeuse extensible et repliage pour regeneration de chaussees et son procede d'utilisation
EP0474523A1 (de) * 1990-09-07 1992-03-11 Beugnet S.A. Verfahren zum heissregenerieren an Ort und Stelle einer porösen Fahrbahnschicht
WO2004018774A1 (en) * 2002-08-16 2004-03-04 Roads Europe Ltd Improved road repair systems
CN100453735C (zh) * 2006-04-26 2009-01-21 鞍山森远路桥股份有限公司 沥青路面混合料就地热再生加热器
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US2254463A (en) * 1939-06-13 1941-09-02 Spears Wells Machinery Company Means for constructing and reconstructing road surfaces
CH462868A (de) * 1965-01-29 1968-09-30 Walter Dipl Ing Schimmel Verfahren zur Instandsetzung von Verkehrsflächen und Vorrichtung zur Durchführung des Verfahrens
US3451721A (en) * 1967-03-06 1969-06-24 Engelhard Hanovia Inc Combination slotting and milling tool
US4347016A (en) * 1980-08-21 1982-08-31 Sindelar Robert A Method and apparatus for asphalt paving
EP0081194A1 (de) * 1981-12-03 1983-06-15 Walter Schölkopf Verfahren zum Instandsetzen einer bituminösen Fahrbahndeckschicht

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FR2634502A1 (fr) * 1988-07-21 1990-01-26 France Littoral Sa Route Prechauffeuse extensible et repliage pour regeneration de chaussees et son procede d'utilisation
EP0474523A1 (de) * 1990-09-07 1992-03-11 Beugnet S.A. Verfahren zum heissregenerieren an Ort und Stelle einer porösen Fahrbahnschicht
FR2666600A1 (fr) * 1990-09-07 1992-03-13 Beugnet Sa Procede de thermorecyclage en place d'une couche de chaussee en enrobes drainants.
WO2004018774A1 (en) * 2002-08-16 2004-03-04 Roads Europe Ltd Improved road repair systems
CN100453735C (zh) * 2006-04-26 2009-01-21 鞍山森远路桥股份有限公司 沥青路面混合料就地热再生加热器
US10407841B2 (en) 2017-10-25 2019-09-10 Caterpillar Paving Products Inc. Rotary mixing system

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