Are you continuing to lose money in bleeding costly steel drum deposits and leaching up to 5 percent of your bitumen to waste left in the barrel? Once you are ready to quit paying to empty metal and begin re-reaping every ten-thousandth drop of binder you purchase, then you are ready to switch to the SINOTO Jumbo Bag Bitumen Melting system, the high-speed, zero-waste standard in the industry to decant bitumen.
Since decades, the 200 kg steel drum was the monarch of bitumen transportation. But drums are a logistical nightmare. They are cumbersome, they decompose, they need enormous storage areas, and their disposal is a nightmare to both the environment and legal issues in most places nowadays.
Put in the Bitumen Jumbo Bag (also called a Biturox or Bag-in-Box system)
These 1000 kg monster units are specifically fitted to the rough conditions of international cargo and site warehousing.
Reason behind switching by smart contractors:
a. Space Optimization:
You will be able to place more bitumen on a square meter than in drums.
20-25 tons of bitumen in bags are good fit in a container of 20ft with virtually no dead space.
After melting the bag, no steel shell is left to contend with – only a small portion of recyclable liner.
It is a great start to switch to Jumbo Bags, but that is where most projects die, the melting of projects. When your melter is no more efficient, you are replacing one evil with another. Old fashioned homemade or poor quality melters require too much time to heat, use up too much diesel or thermal oil, and usually burn up the bitumen, making your asphalt quality foul.
The SINOTO Jumbo Bag Bitumen Melting Machine makes the difference in this. It is not just a tank with a burner; it is a highly-engineered thermal recovery system.
To understand why the SINOTO unit is a “must-have” for high-output projects, let’s look at the hard numbers. We compared the SINOTO 10-ton/hour Jumbo Bag Melter against standard drum decanting lines.
|
Feature |
Traditional Drum Decanters |
SINOTO Jumbo Bag Melter |
|
Residual Waste |
3% – 5% (stuck in drum) |
< 0.5% (complete melting) |
|
Labor Requirement |
High (loading/moving drums) |
Low (crane or forklift loading) |
|
Heating Time |
4-6 hours for first batch |
< 90 minutes for first batch |
|
Environmental Impact |
High (Drum disposal/smoke) |
Low (Closed system/No drums) |
|
Energy Consumption |
~18-22kg Fuel per ton |
~12-14kg Fuel per ton |
The SINOTO melting machine is designed to grind an asphalt plant every day, all day long. It has a special dual-chamber structure that separates the first stage breaking the bags and the last stage heating the liquid.
The coil staggered pattern is the core of the SINOTO system. We employ smooth-surface carbon steel pipes having a huge surface region. This will make sure that all sides of the Jumbo Bag bitumen are struck with constant heat thus avoiding cold spots that make the process slow.
It is messy to load a 1-ton bag without doing it properly. Our machine has a cutting grid that is heavy duty. When the crane drops down the bag onto the frame it is sliced automatically and the bitumen then flows onto the heating coils. No hand cutting, no splashing, no danger.
The SINOTO unit absorbs the waste heat of the burner exhaust and it is re-diverted to preheat the upper chamber. This free energy would explain almost 15% of thermal efficiency improvement over competitors.
Whether you are working in the hot, muggy tropics of the Southeast Asian or the frozen plateaus of the Central Asian region, the behavior of bitumen varies.
Let’s talk money. Assuming that you are doing 5,000 tons of bitumen annually:
With this process, you can only save an approximation of 3 per cent of the residual waste by replacing drums with bags and SINOTO melter. That will be saved at 500/ton, which would be 75000 in the raw material alone in one year.
You cut down the number of your operators to two. That is about 20, 000 -30, 000 of yearly wage savings based on your area.
Saving 5kg of fuel per ton across 5,000 tons equals 25,000kg of fuel—roughly $15,000 back in your pocket.
Total Estimated Annual Gain: $110,000 – $120,000. The machine literally will have paid itself off and you have not even achieved your first big project.
A large road contracting company in East Africa was grappling with slow supply chain last year. Drums were in short supply with them, and their old melters were incessantly clogging. They changed to SINO TO Jumbo Bag Bitumen Melting units.
The result?
This saw their daily production of asphalt rise by a quarter since they did not have to wait till there was a melt down of bitumen. They were out of waiting to be heated to running to make a profit. Their project manager observed, “SINOTO unit is the least attractive machine on our site it simply switches on and does its task perfectly on a daily basis. That’s exactly what we need.”
We do not simply send you a box and be best wishes. In investing in a SINOTO Jumbo Bag Bitumen Melting Machine, you would be getting:
Our engineers will be available to aid in the commissioning and training.
Our units are also shipped in standard containers so that they can be transferred between locations as your projects change.
Have you a minimum capacity requirement? 5 tons? 10 tons? 20 tons per hour? We build to your specs.
Construction industry is becoming competitive and leaner. And when you are still melting drums in old fashioned ways, you are creating more work with less pay. It is time to change to Jumbo Bags–be sure you have the appropriate melting technology to help you out.
Would you have me send you a specially-prepared technical specifications sheet, and a specific ROI calculation, with reference to your present project volume?
Call our technical department on the phone today and we can get your plant up and running to full capacity.
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