#147 sensXPERT receives AVK Award on contactless cure testing in trenchless technologies
05.11.2024 6 min Staffel 5 Episode 105
Zusammenfassung & Show Notes
sensXPERT - Optimizing Plastics Manufacturing receives AVK Award on contactless cure testing in trenchless technologies
During the award ceremony Jens Ridzewski, Prof. Dr.-Ing. held the laudatio and reasoned the award as follows:
"If you also look at the production of liners or the application of liners, it used to be common practice to cure the liners, i.e. for the trenchless rehabilitation of pipes, using steam.
For some time now, UV curing has become established here. In itself a very, very nice topic, but you have to bear in mind that UV curing is of course controlled by how quickly you pull the lamps through the sewer, through the pipe and how thick the material is.
This all has an influence on the degree of cure of the material, and sensXPERT - Optimizing Plastics Manufacturing (NETZSCH Group) has managed to install an in-line system here, which is therefore directly able to determine the cross-linking, the degree of curing, of these liners, and that is important to monitor the quality in-line and then, if necessary, to adjust the process parameters, for example to reduce the speed of passage.
The first two points are the result of this project. The advantage of UV curing over steam curing... the trenchless sewer rehabilitation compared to excavation, especially in urban areas, does not need to be clarified.
The point is precisely what the jury assessed here is the continuous process monitoring and the in-line control of the parameters for the cross-linking of the curing of the liner, so that in principle the risk of having to remove semi-cross-linked liners from the old pipe can be significantly minimized."
Ilkay Özkisaoglu took the opportunity at the JEC Forum DACH 2024 to speak to Dominik Riescher, who represented sensXPERT - Optimizing Plastics Manufacturing after this year's AVK award ceremony.
AVK is the world's oldest plastics association with an impressive history of over 100 years now. For the past three decades they award innovation in the DACH region and foster a culture of collaboration between academia, institutions and manufacturers. Composites Lounge congratulates all members and the AVK leadership Elmar Witten and Michael Effing for leading the community and having a fine taste when it comes to groundbreaking technologies in plastics and composites!
JEC Group fantastic Forum in Stuttgart! Looking forward to JEC FORUM DACH in Italy, Central Europe and again in Germany (Dresden) in 2025!
YouTube Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB42gygZPWw&feature=youtu.be
During the award ceremony Jens Ridzewski, Prof. Dr.-Ing. held the laudatio and reasoned the award as follows:
"If you also look at the production of liners or the application of liners, it used to be common practice to cure the liners, i.e. for the trenchless rehabilitation of pipes, using steam.
For some time now, UV curing has become established here. In itself a very, very nice topic, but you have to bear in mind that UV curing is of course controlled by how quickly you pull the lamps through the sewer, through the pipe and how thick the material is.
This all has an influence on the degree of cure of the material, and sensXPERT - Optimizing Plastics Manufacturing (NETZSCH Group) has managed to install an in-line system here, which is therefore directly able to determine the cross-linking, the degree of curing, of these liners, and that is important to monitor the quality in-line and then, if necessary, to adjust the process parameters, for example to reduce the speed of passage.
The first two points are the result of this project. The advantage of UV curing over steam curing... the trenchless sewer rehabilitation compared to excavation, especially in urban areas, does not need to be clarified.
The point is precisely what the jury assessed here is the continuous process monitoring and the in-line control of the parameters for the cross-linking of the curing of the liner, so that in principle the risk of having to remove semi-cross-linked liners from the old pipe can be significantly minimized."
Ilkay Özkisaoglu took the opportunity at the JEC Forum DACH 2024 to speak to Dominik Riescher, who represented sensXPERT - Optimizing Plastics Manufacturing after this year's AVK award ceremony.
AVK is the world's oldest plastics association with an impressive history of over 100 years now. For the past three decades they award innovation in the DACH region and foster a culture of collaboration between academia, institutions and manufacturers. Composites Lounge congratulates all members and the AVK leadership Elmar Witten and Michael Effing for leading the community and having a fine taste when it comes to groundbreaking technologies in plastics and composites!
JEC Group fantastic Forum in Stuttgart! Looking forward to JEC FORUM DACH in Italy, Central Europe and again in Germany (Dresden) in 2025!
YouTube Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB42gygZPWw&feature=youtu.be
Transkript
If you also look at the production
of liners or
the application of liners,
it used to be common practice
to cure the liners, i.e.
for
the
trenchless rehabilitation of pipes,
using steam.
For some time now,
UV curing has become established here.
In itself a very, very nice topic,
but you have to bear in mind
that UV curing is of course controlled
by how quickly
you pull the lamps through the sewer,
through the pipe
and how thick the material is.
This all has an influence
on the degree of cure of the material,
and NETZSCH has managed to install
an in-line system here,
which is therefore directly able
to determine the cross-linking,
the degree of curing,
of these liners,
and that is important
to monitor
the
quality in-line and then, if necessary,
to adjust the process parameters,
for example to reduce the speed
of passage. The first two points
are the result of this project.
I don't think I need to go
into them any
further. The advantage of UV curing over
steam curing, I would say, is obvious,
and the trenchless sewer rehabilitation
compared to excavation,
especially in urban areas,
does not need to be clarified.
The point is precisely what the jury
assessed here
is the continuous process monitoring
and the in-line control of the parameters
for
the
cross-linking of the curing of the liner,
so that in principle
the risk of having to remove
semi-cross-linked liners
from
the
old pipe can be significantly minimized.
Again, I would like to invite
the NETZSCH representatives to the stage.
-Good, well explained,
thank you very much, very well explained,
thank you very much, thank you!
So wonderful good afternoon,
dear LinkedIn community
and Composites Lounge members,
JEC Forum DACH, buyers and sellers.
Yeah, we are here now together
with Dominik Riescher of sensXPERT.
Dominik, I know him
from our LinkedIn activities
around about their AI solutions
that are optimizing processes in mold.
We will talk about that in a moment.
But first of all, Dominik,
my congratulations.
You have won an award here from the AVK,
which is now also 100 years old.
-Thank you, Ilkay.
Can you tell us about yourself a bit
so that our community knows whom
they are listening to today?
-Yeah, for sure.
Like I said, my name is Dominik Riescher.
From my background, I am a sensing expert.
I worked like six years in automation
for the industry,
including injection molding machines.
And for half a year
now I'm with sensXPERT.
And today we are here,
because we won the AVK innovation prize
for one of our key technology solutions
in real time process control.
One of our key innovations
optimizes the curing process
during trenchless pipe rehabilitation.
Particularly when
they have UV-cured liners.
Here our technology ensures high quality,
while reducing costs and errors
for the rehabilitation projects.
-So that's the speciality
of the innovation that has been awarded.
-Kind of, yes
Where is this technology exactly applied?
You mentioned sewer pipe repair.
Yes. This technology especially is used
in trenchless pipe rehabilitation,
especially where they used UV-cured liners
for damaged pipes.
So these are the reverse liners
put in order
to rehabilitate old pipes that are leaky.
And you make sure that your system
ensures the curing of that process, right?
-Exactly, with the curing.
We are measuring the curing
of these liners.
And with this data we correlate them
to quality assurance metrics
like the information of degree of curing,
elasticity and styrene content.
And this information is transferred
to a third man,
which then is controlling
the speed of the UV core,
ensuring that the quality of the curing
is exactly the same at every time.
And to ensure that we don't have
any jumps in the curing.
In the past, these pipes had to be cut.
A ring had to be cut and tested.
So I am assuming
that this is now contactless.
You don't need to to check it
by destroying the material, right?
Exactly. Our sensors are mounted
at the UV core,
which is then pulled
through the liner to harden it.
And we are measuring the curing
of the liner.
However, the same core technology
is also being used
in plastic manufacturing
through our Digital Mold solution,
where we measure the material behavior
of plastic during the process
like injection molding,
compression molding, vacuum infusion,
or autoclave curing.
We can use it for thermoset,
thermoplastic, and elastomer applications.
We are measuring the material behavior
directly in the process,
and can then adapt the whole process
dynamically to what the material
really is doing inside the machine.
So, Dominik,
what advantages does the technology offer?
The sensXPERT Digital Mold solution
technology offers real time monitoring
and control during the molding process,
optimizing efficiency,
reducing scrap and cutting cycle times,
and just offering
a whole better understanding
of the complete process.
And with this information
of material behavior,
it offers you a complete new world
of optimization possibilities.
In total, it reduces the cycle time
by up to 30%.
It reduces the scrap by up to 50%.
It reduces the energy consumption
and just makes sure that each part
is cured to the perfect value.
How does this solution contribute
to a more sustainable world?
There are two ways we are contributing
to a more sustainable world.
And the one place,
if we look at thermosets and elastomers,
where we can cut the cycle times,
where we can reduce the scrap,
which leads to less environmental impact
of each part
produced and less energy consumption.
And at the second point,
when we look at thermoplastic,
where using recycled material
becomes more and more important.
We can measure the deviations
in the recycled material
and adapting the process dynamically,
making it more easy to use more recylate
and still have a perfect product
in the end.
-What do you expect to gain
from your visit
to the JEC Forum DACH 2024?
The JEC Forum DACH 2024
is great to connect
with the plastic
manufacturing key players.
And of course, ultimately we want to show
how real time process control
can make traditional manufacturing
more advanced,
more efficient and more data driven.
And that's also a great point,
because our product is able
to be retrofit in any machine.
So making it more intelligent
and more efficient and data driven.
Dear community,
This is day one of JEC Forum DACH 2024.
We've spoken this morning with Kerry Lyons
from Base Material (UK)
and now with Dominik Riescher
of sensXPERT.
And you see, we are all about innovation,
technology and sustainability
and we will keep on
techtaining you here from Stuttgart.