Asphalt

Riventa’s real-time pump monitoring delivers long-term benefits in Korea

In Incheon, South Korea, Riventa has installed a new fixed monitoring system that will, in real-time, analyse the performance of 10 pumps at one of the city’s most important pumping stations.

The data gathered by Riventa will enable the water supply system providers to better plan for capital expenditure and minimise wholelife costs. The fixed monitoring will also help reduce the pumps’ energy consumption, carbon emissions, hydraulic failure and premature wear.

As the pumps in Incheon are part of a key dynamic system, their contribution varies with demand and system characteristics. Riventa’s FREEFLOWi4.0 system will monitor hydraulic performance and pump efficiency. In conjunction with operator interface software, the real-time effectiveness of each pump will be evaluated, and accurate data generated to make optimisation happen.

This latest order for Riventa follows its successful work in the port city of Yeosu in South Korea, where at a tyre manufacturer’s water pumping plant, it identified annual energy savings of 13%.

Mixing Plant With Hot Recycling System Passes The 2m Ton Mark

Lu An Highway Industry’s Lintec CSM4000HRC containerised asphalt batch plant mixed more than 2 million tons of hot mix asphalt with a high percentage of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP). After reaching this milestone, it has now finished supporting construction of the S244 regional expressway and other rehabilitation projects in China’s Anhui province.

The installation process began in February 2016 on a site in Lu’An city. The plant began operations the following June, providing hot mix asphalt for the 23.04km Huoqiu Garden to Xuji interchange section of the S244. The plant produced approximately 150,000 tons for the 03 section of the highway, after which the project was completed in 2022.

Having concluded work on the expressway, the asphalt batch plant has since been used to carry out asphalt pavement repair and maintenance projects on other expressways in Anhui province. To date, total production for the plant has now passed the 2 million ton mark. Thanks to the HRC component in the CSM4000HRC asphalt plant, 40% of the hot mix asphalt was from RAP making it a more environment-friendly choice.

The Lintec CSM4000 asphalt mixing plant with a 320 tph capacity paired with the HRC hot recycling system yielded efficient integration of RAP with exceptional productivity. The HRC attachment is able to be retrofitted into any Lintec asphalt plant for the processing of milling waste or material excavated from road pavement recycling. This will then result in a significant contribution to the conservation of natural resources while massively reducing the transport and production costs of bitumen and aggregates.

It has given us huge cost savings while ensuring mix quality remains at the highest level – all while being extremely simple to operate,” said a spokesperson from Lu An Highway Industry.