What about the claim that a UHPC essence, local cement and local sand can be used to produce UHPC concrete?

Again and again we read in flyers from UHPC manufacturers that they have a UHPC essence with
which the customer can easily mix a local cement and local sand with this UHPC essence and water and then the customer gets a UHPC concrete. As a rule, this text is very general and does not go into technical details, which has its reasons.


Let's start with the statement:
...locally available cement and sand can be used....


In itself, this statement is not wrong, if we disregard what the customer expects from the quality.
Why?
Well, if we buy a C25 cement, it is impossible to produce a C100 UHPC concrete with a UHPC essence.
If we want to produce a high quality UHPC concrete we need high quality cement, this cannot be changed.
Many users believe that cement from manufacturer A is exactly the same as from manufacturer B if only it says C35.
This is also partly a misconception. Yes, it is true that with both you will get a strength of 35 MPa. But if you look at the anlaysis of the two cements, they could be very different. However, these differences determine the suitability for a UHPC and how it can be processed.
The same applies to aggregates such as sand. Of course I can add local sand but a high quality binder will only be a high quality UHPC if the right sand with the right grading curve is added, otherwise there is a possibility that you will only get a good concrete.


You can of course test the local sand and cement for suitability. Such a test takes one day if the analysis data of the cement and sand are available. We do this cost free for our customers.

 

WPE DK International

Phone: 0049 176 601 73146
E-mail: info@wpe-dk.dk
Homepage: www.wpe-dk.com




Who invented the UHPC Binder?

Again and again we are asked who invented the UHPC binder. Very often the French and the Germans are associated with it, but all these countries and their companies did not invent it. It was the Danes and everyone else copied the Danes. Why we want to know this so exactly. Well, our whole team worked for this Danish company. We have a timeline here of how it all came about.  We at hhbc-consulting and WPE DK have been working with UHPC for almost thirty years. Who can have such experience.




WPE DK International

Phone: 0049 176 601 73146
E-mail: info@wpe-dk.dk
Homepage: www.wpe-dk.com

UHPC Gravity Platforms


The construction of gravity platforms is not a new technology. There are already several concrete gravity
platforms in use nearshore. They are designed and manufactured like a barge. Oil and gas processing plants including storage facilities are installed on them.

Compared to standard concrete platforms, gravity platforms made of UHPC concrete are more durable,
much more resistant and almost maintenance-free.
UHPC offshore structures have been around for over 20 years. UHPC Offshore concretes are absolut salt water resistant. In the meantime, UHPC offshore structures are beginning to replace the outdated offshore steel structures. Offshore steel structures are also stabilised with UHPC concrete or the statics of the structure are improved. UHPC structures are also very resistant to ice floes.



Thanks to mobile production facilities, all our UHPC materials can be manufactured and processed on site. There is definitely the possibility to use local raw materials in the local binder production.





WPE DK International

Phone: 0049 176 601 73146
E-mail: info@wpe-dk.dk
Homepage: www.wpe-dk.com

Sales of Mobile HPC and UHPC Production Systems + Production licences

Mobile HPC and UHPC Production System
We will start selling our mobile UHPC production system at the beginning of July this year. 

The technical documentation required for this can be requested from this date via uhpc.production@hhbc-consulting.de. The base production system consists of two 40" containers. The whole mobile production system is modular and can easily be enlarged. Through planned modifications the modules can be used in both high and low temperature environments. The UHPC binder production modules can be extended by a UHPC concrete mixing module. The UHPC basic concrete mixing module will include a powerful concrete pump. In this basis module you can mix HPC and UHPC mortar, castable, Shotcrete, and TopLayer. The basic modules can be easily adapted to the customer's requirements.


HPC and UHPC production licences

We sell production licences for all our HPC and UHPC binder systems.

We also sell production licences for the HPC and UHPC binder systems that we develop with local raw materials at the request of the customer.
Interested parties can contact us at any time by phone 0049 176 601 73146 or uhpc.production@hhbc-consulting.de. 

 

 WPE DK International

Telefon: 0049 176 601 73146
E-Mail: ber@wpe-dk.dk
Homepage: www.wpe-dk.com



Comparison HPC/UHPC - Standard concrete according DIN EN 206-1

This is a small excerpt from our HPC - UHPC manual book 2020. it shows a small technical section of our possibilities.
Our HPC - UHPC manual book 2020 is currently being revised and will then be available to our customers.

 

 

 WPE DK International

Phone: 0049 176 601 73146
E-mail: ber@wpe-dk.dk
Homepage: www.wpe-dk.com

 

 

 


 

New UHPC concrete laboratory for us in Germany

Since the beginning of this year, we have put our UHPC concrete laboratory No.2 into operation. In our
UHPC concrete laboratory No.1, we continue to concentrate on the quality monitoring of our raw materials and UHPC end products. Due to the constantly high production volume and the resulting high level of monitoring, it was time for a second laboratory.


Our UHPC concrete laboratory No.2 is located near Flensburg in northern Germany.

 

 The tasks for the new laboratory No.2
- Development of new HPC and UHPC binder systems for WPE International
- Development of new HPC and UHPC binder systems on behalf of our international customers.
- Improvements of our standard HPC and UHPC binder systems
- Reduction of the cement content in our HPC and UHPC mixing recipes
- Testing of new aggregates and biomaterials
- Development of UHPC material for security and military applications
- New grouting material for the offshore industry
- Development of new very light HPC and UHPC binder systems
- Development of production processes for HPC and UHPC production in different countries
- Testing of new raw materials for our binder system.

The UHPC laboratory will grow in the future just like its tasks.
There are initial plans from WPE DK International for a small, very flexible production of all HPC and UHPC materials at the same location as Lab No.2. 


WPE DK International

Phone: 0049 176 601 73146
E-mail: info@wpe-dk.dk
Homepage: www.wpe-dk.com

 




Local UHPC offshore binder production through our new UHPC binder production modules.

 


We have been supplying UHPC grouting material to the offshore industry worldwide for many years. Our UHPC offshore programme consists of UHPC binder systems for wind turbines, offshore foundations, offshore repair material for oil and gas platforms, offshore corrosion protection and UHPC Oilwell cements.
With the new mobile HPC and UHPC binder production plants, we are able to produce HPC and UHPC binders locally with local raw materials worldwide after prior suitability testing. The mobile plants are modular in design and can be easily expanded.

 

 

WPE DK International

Phone: 0049 176 601 73146
E-mail: info@wpe-dk.dk
Homepage: www.wpe-dk.com

 

 

New mobile production plant for HPC and UHPC binder systems

In addition to our stationary production plant, we are planning to put a mobile HPC and UHPC production
plant for the production of HPC or UHPC binders into operation from the beginning of July. The production plant is housed in three 40" containers and is intended as an expandable modular system. In its basic configuration, the module will produce 120 t / day of binder material. A single packaging unit is integrated into the container for packaging in 1 to BigBag or in 25 kg paper bags. We also plan to commission a mobile HPC and UHPC mixing line one month later. For the basic equipment, a 40" container is required.
The mixing plant can produce approx. 60 t / day of HPC or UHPC ready-mixed concrete. In the basic version, the raw materials are processed "just in time" into binder or HPC / UHPC concrete. In case of a larger daily demand, the raw materials are stored in silos to supply the production modules with raw material


The production and mixing modules can then be used on any construction site in the world.
We will also sell these module systems. They will then be customised to the needs of the customer.
For local HPC or UHPC production, we also offer licences for our HPC and UHPC mixing recipes to our customers.

 

 

 

 

 

WPE DK International

Phone: 0049 176 601 73146
E-mail: info@wpe-dk.dk
Homepage: www.wpe-dk.com

 

 

New Generation low price HPC and UHPC Binder systems

 

For more than 25 years, we have been involved in the development, production and processing of HPC
and UHPC binder systems. Since then, we have always worked with the same reliable raw material suppliers. This long-standing cooperation guarantees quality, reliability and available.

This has enabled us to keep our HPC and UHPC binder prices unchanged since 2020. Our new UHPC concrete laboratory, which has been active since the beginning of this year, has revised some HPC and UHPC binder systems and these new versions particularly concern the qualities C80 to C140 as fibre-reinforced mortar, castable and shotcrete. We will be able to offer these qualities at a reduced price from June this year.

Would you like to know more about our HPC or UHPC binder systems or just a price for your current project? 

 

 

 

 

WPE DK International

Phone: 0049 176 601 73146
E-mail: info@wpe-dk.dk
Homepage: www.wpe-dk.com

Intercor our partner in Switzerland, Poland and Austria

Intercor, Schweiz

The company Intercor with its owner Gordon Viol is a partner for Switzerland, Germany and Austria we have been working with for a very long time. Intercor AG is a specialist in HPC and UHPC security (safe construction and military), UHPC Phalt and UHPC TopLayer materials.

Gordon is also supplier of us for some of our raw materials. He is owner of mineral mines in the southern part of Africa.
 

Security and Military
Contact:
Intercor AG
Untermüli 11
6302 Zug
Switzerland

Tel: +41 76 428 79 77
www.intercor.ch

Use of UHPC HT construction material in extreme fire temperatures

20 years ago we started as the only one in the world to use high temperature resistant HT UHPC in areas
up to 1200°C / 2192°F. We use this material under the most extreme wear and temperature conditions in industry. High temperature resistant UHPC HT can be used as construction material, radiation insulation, floor material, wear protection and corrosion protection.

We produce this material in several qualities as mortar, castable and shotcreate.

Constructions made from our UHPC HT material can withstand very high temperatures for a very long
time. Steel and concrete structures are protected in steel plants, power plants, offshore platforms, civil construtions, refinery, chemical plants etc. with UHPC HT material.

A few years ago we started to develop UHPC HT materials for architectural applications. Today residental housing constructions can be built for example to withstand wild fires and fire storms for long period of time. There are already the first companies that want to manufacture doors and window security systems from UHPC HT. If windows and doors were to be secured against high temperatures, a fire from outside would have no way of penetrating the house.

These high-temperature UHPC HT are also available with mixed thermal insulation.

In public buildings, escape routes, stairwells and supporting structures can be secured against fire and destruction. UHPC HT can be processed in the same way as normal concrete.

UHPC HT is not only extreme fire-resistant and thus protects life, UHPC HT has a very high load-bearing capacity, no water can penetrate UHPC HT constructions at flooding
situation, UHPC HT can be perfectly processed as a tilt-up and precast construction and is absolutely resistant to all types of fungi and termite infestation. UHPC HT has also been used in the military and in security technology for many years.

 

WPE DK International

Phone: 0049 176 601 73146
E-mail: ber@wpe-dk.dk
Homepage: www.wpe-dk.com



UHPC Floating platforms

The future will take place more and more on the water of the oceans, whether on the coast or in the open sea. UHPC Ultra high Performance Concrete will play a crucial role in this. The two main construction materials in the offshore sector so far are steel and concrete. However, both have significant disadvantages compared to UHPC.
On the one hand, there is resistance to salt water. Steel is very difficult to protect against corrosion and even then the construction still has to be serviced regularly and very time-consuming and expensive. Floating structures should have a lifespan of at least 100+ years in the future.
With normal concrete structures the problems are similar, if not more serious. Once extremely corrosive seawater has penetrated the steel reinforcement unnoticed, the repair effort is enormous. In addition, for this very reason, the construction must be extremely thick-walled. An anti-corrosion coating makes the entire construction additionally expensive and here too the entire construction must be checked regularly in short periods of time.
Special UHPC concretes have extremely high strength values ​​compared to normal concretes, they are waterproof after a wall thickness of a few millimeters and are absolutely salt water resistant. Some of our UHPC binders are also extremely temperature-resistant (up to max. 1200°C) and they are very good wear-resistant (resistant to wear and tear caused by moving ice floes). Due to the high strength values, structural elements can be optimized or minimized in terms of size and weight.
UHPC concrete will be the much cheaper material for the required service life.

As developers and producers of high-quality UHPC binder materials, we want to focus on three future projects:

1st project
Floating work platforms for energy generation and storage.
All the major offshore wind farm operators worldwide are currently planning not only to generate energy with wind turbines, but also to use this energy to produce hydrogen on site in the wind farm. Solar systems on the platforms should contribute to additional energy generation. The platforms can be manufactured in several standard segments and connected to form a network at sea. These platforms can be made from very lightweight UHPC. This UHPC material can be self-floating.

2nd project
Floating living and working platforms, artificial islands for the coastal area and for the open sea. Platforms
for residential buildings, hotels, schools, hospitals, office buildings and production facilities.
Please see the corresponding article below.

3rd project
Offshore missile launch sites
There are various ideas for implementing this. In Germany, launch sites on ships for small and medium-sized rocket systems for satellite transport are being considered and are already being planned. Elon Musk is planning rocket launch sites for converted former oil production platforms. In all of these plans, UHPC could contribute to intelligent, lasting solutions. Ships were built from UHPC more than 20 years ago and
offshore platforms with UHPC were significantly improved structurally and statically.
Please see the corresponding article below.

 

WPE DK International

Phone: 0049 176 601 73146
E-mail: ber@wpe-dk.dk
Homepage: www.wpe-dk.com