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Views: 0 Author: Site Editor Publish Time: 2025-07-23 Origin: Site
In the Middle East, construction projects face severe challenges from extreme climates. In the hot summer, the temperature often soars to unimaginable heights, while the strong winds in the desert environment carry sand and dust, constantly eroding buildings. Under such harsh conditions, ensuring the durability of concrete structures has become a key challenge in the construction industry. However, an innovative solution is quietly changing this situation - concrete structure plus flake ice technology provides a long-lasting and solid guarantee for buildings in the Middle East.
The Middle East is dominated by tropical desert climate, with summer temperatures frequently exceeding 45°C, surface temperatures soaring to over 60°C, and air humidity below 30% for long periods of time. This extreme environment poses a severe test for concrete construction: if there is a lack of effective temperature control measures, the cement hydration reaction will be out of control due to high temperature, causing the core temperature inside the concrete to rise sharply to over 70°C (far exceeding the 40-50°C of conventional construction). This drastic temperature difference between inside and outside (>25°C) will cause differences in shrinkage between the inside and outside of the concrete, and then form through cracks, which seriously weaken the mechanical properties and durability of the building structure.
In order to prevent cracks in concrete from occurring due to the pressure brought by the natural environment in the Middle East, artificial cooling measures need to be taken, that is, pre-cooling of aggregates and mixing of concrete with cold water and flake ice to reduce the temperature of the concrete leaving the machine.
The flake ice technology for concrete is an innovative solution developed specifically for concrete cooling. When flake ice is added during the concrete mixing process, it will melt quickly and absorb a large amount of heat. Since flake ice can take away the heat inside the concrete when it melts, it effectively reduces the temperature of the concrete out of the machine, greatly reducing the problem of excessive temperature inside the concrete caused by high temperature.
After the concrete is poured, the water formed by the melting of flake ice can continue to participate in the hydration reaction of cement, making the cement hydration more sufficient, thereby improving the strength of the concrete. The melting process of flake ice can not only absorb heat, but also help reduce the temperature difference between the inside and the surface of the concrete, reduce the risk of cracks caused by temperature difference stress, and lay a solid foundation for the durability of the concrete structure.
In the concrete mixing plant project in Saudi Arabia, the project team adopted the concrete flake ice technology. The project is located on the edge of the desert, and the summer temperature often exceeds 45℃, which is a great test for the durability of the concrete structure. During the construction process, by accurately controlling the amount of flake ice added and the mixing time, the concrete outlet temperature is always kept within the ideal range. After the project was completed, after years of use and monitoring, the concrete structure remains intact without obvious cracks and damage, which fully proves the reliability and effectiveness of the concrete flake ice technology under the extreme climate conditions in the Middle East.
As a pioneer in the field of industrial refrigeration, Icemedal Refrigeration provides a complete set of cooling solutions for concrete batching plant cooling by virtue of its deep cultivation in the field of industrial refrigeration. By automatically delivering ice and cold water with precise proportions to the concrete mixing plant, the hydration heat during the concrete setting process is balanced. After precise heat balance and mixing, the poured concrete will not crack due to uneven temperature. In addition, the system is equipped with an efficient transportation system to quickly deliver flake ice to the concrete cooling site. Ensure that ice is seamlessly integrated into the concrete cooling process, maximize efficiency and reduce downtime.
In the construction field in the Middle East, the durability of concrete structures is an issue that cannot be ignored. Choosing our flake ice machine raking systemsolution is to choose to build a solid line of defense for your construction project.
