Descripción del proyecto
Revolucionar la industria de la pavimentación
Para mitigar los efectos del cambio climático y minimizar el daño causado a personas en todo el mundo, numerosos sectores e industrias han tenido que adaptarse adoptando tecnologías innovadoras que disminuyan su huella medioambiental. El sector de la pavimentación no es una excepción. Las exigencias actuales obligan al sector a modernizarse, con el objetivo de reducir los costes medioambientales y financieros, al tiempo que se da prioridad a la reducción del ruido y al respeto del medio ambiente. El equipo del proyecto SILENT RUBBER PAVE, financiado con fondos europeos, se ha puesto en marcha para ayudar a la industria en la consecución de estos objetivos mediante la introducción de un método rentable que permita la utilización del caucho en pedazos. Este innovador método pretende satisfacer estas demandas y consolidarse como la opción preferida del sector.
Objetivo
Paving industry sector faces nowadays different challenges as the need for less maintenance, more silent and more environmental friendly pavements. The use of crumb rubber (CR) derived from end‐of‐life tires (ELTs) in bituminous mixtures replies to all these needs however its wide implementation has not been extended due mainly of the following barriers that prevent its wide implementation are:
i. A crumb rubber alone cannot be placed directly into the mixes (dry method) because it will swell and absorb the bitumen causing raveling in the roads
ii. The wet method works well but requires that every contractor buys expensive equipment
iii. If crumb rubber is used in terminal blends it is essentially a waste of product because over time it becomes all digested
The solution proposed in this initiative to overcome these barriers is the use of use of reacted and activated rubber that it can be used directly into the plugmill of a contractor’s plant. The SILENT RUBBER PAVEMENTS project main goal is to market uptake and achieve a wider deployment of the RARX technology, based in a patent of CONSULALPV, that has the best of both methods:
• Easy to apply and use as in the “dry method”
• Performance and cost effectiveness beyond that of the “wet method”
To enter in the global market, two large companies (Valoriza SM- Composan) have made an agreement with a specialized SME (Consulpav, a first industrial applicant) who has developed and patented the RARX technology to exploit at European level. SACYR, a multinational pavement construction company present in more than 20 countries, will be the responsible for the pilot construction in different climate and evaluation. Our distributor in Italy, FHL group will assist the consortia in internationalizing our commercialization strategy.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-FTIPilot-2016-1
Régimen de financiación
IA - Innovation actionCoordinador
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