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PURE CRETE

Modern Road Technology

A Global Road Construction

System

PURE CRETE

Product Logistics

The product should be shipped, given ample time to clear customs, and delivered to a storage facility.

The climate of the storage facility should be above freezing and less than 110 degrees Fahrenheit.

The product container should not be opened or tampered with.

Allot enough time to fulfill these logistical requirements before the training and testing begins.

Product Documentation

All persons related to the PURE CRETE project such as engineers, technicians, supervisors, distributors, etc. should read and familiarize themselves with the PURE CRETE manuals, CD, DVD, and the PowerPoint presentations. The technical manual should be read by all technical personnel involved with the project.

Site Selection

Select the training site. The area should be close to a water source. There should be ample room for the equipment to be staged and have the ability to turn around and make passes on the road. The training road segment should be planned and executed at a width of 7.6 meters.

Photographs of the area should be taken and forwarded to PURE ONE Environmental, Inc.

Photos should include close up and wide shots of the road, shoulders and the grade.

Soil Sampling

Obtain soil samples of the prospected project to determine the type and composition of the soil. Pure Crete can be used with 80% of the soil types due to it multi-enzyme properties.

Pure Crete is a not aggregate system that uses the native soil without the requirement to bring in more aggregate unlike the traditional road base construction method used today.

The Training & Demonstration Road

The area for training and demonstration should be at least a total of 2km or more in length and close to a water source.

There should be security available for the equipment in all locations.

All permits and approvals to conduct the road constructions should be applied for and completed well in advance of the beginning of training and the demonstration road.

Equipment

1 Bulldozer (D6, D8 or equivalent) with rear scarifiers which are used for the initial ripping of the soil.

2 Tractor pulling water trailers with a variety of nozzle sizes to manage the spray. This is an important part of the water/product management.

Equipment

2 Road Graders (H-140) equipped with rear mounted scarifiers.

Caterpillar or equivalent with 5 position rear scarifiers and a 14 foot blade. The graders should have rear scarifiers for ripping the soil. The grader drivers should be the best and most talented operators available. Two DAY 1 drivers as well as Two DAY 2 drivers will be needed. The DAY 1 drivers only performs Day one operations and the DAY 2 drivers will only perform day two operations.

Equipment

2 tractor pulling Disks are used in the DAY 1 mixing process to break up the soil into the smallest consistency possible to create the greatest mixture of Pure Crete with the soil. This is a piece of equipment that is readily available in any region of the world.

Equipment

4 Water Trucks 2000 gallon capacity, equipped with a custom rear sprayer bar.

The water trucks should have a custom spray bar built and fitted to the rear of the truck. The truck should be 2000 gallon or 7500-8000 liter capacity. The truck should be equipped to be filled very quickly by having an onboard pump or an external pump available to refill the truck. In a production environment, up to 4 trucks may be required. It is preferable that the regulator of the spray bar be the driver. If this is not possible, an additional person will have to ride on the back of the truck to turn the water on and off at the precise moment needed. The water truck operator should be the second most skilled operator.

Photos containing the spray bar mount for the rear of the truck will be provided in advance.

Pure Crete should be mixed with water in the water truck at a dilution rate of 2000 to 1.

Equipment

3 - 20 Ton Drum Compactors

The drum compactors should have a vibrating mode and a drum knife (to keep the drum clear of soil build up). Three drum compactors are required for training and production. More than one operator can be trained at a time on each piece of equipment. This piece of equipment is the slowest process in the construction of the road base. These operators and pieces of equipment are only used for DAY 2 operations.

Equipment

2 – 15 Ton Sheep’s foot Compactors

This piece of equipment is the second slowest process in the road base construction. Training more than one operator per compactor is recommended. This operator and piece of equipment is only used in DAY 2 operations.

Equipment

One or two – 6 to 10 Ton Pneumatic Tire finishing compactor with a water reservoir and drum knife to keep drum clean of soil.

This is the easiest piece of equipment to operate and requires the least skill. It is used to finish the surface of a PURE CRETE constructed road base that is not going to be finished with an asphalt or chip coat finish. This equipment and operator are only used for DAY 2 operations.

Equipment

1 Water Buffalo water Supply Tank with top

filling port. This unit is best positioned at the

source of the water supply.

Water supply (River or stream) and

pump to fill water trucks and water trailers quickly.

Pure Crete is poured into the water trucks or trailers at a dilution rate of 2000 units of water to 1 unit of Pure Crete.

Equipment

Moisture Meter – 1-2 per team

Fuel Truck or available fuel supply

12 - 2 way radios (If available)

Containers to dispense PURE CRETE into water truck or trailer

Dynamic Cone Penetrometer (DCP) for CBR calculations

Summary Equipment Needs

Day 1:

2 Graders1 Water Truck2 Tractors pulling water trailers1 Tractor pulling disk1 Bulldozer1 Moisture Meter

Day 2:2 Graders4 Water Trucks3 Drum Compactors2 Sheep’s Foot Compactors2 Pneumatic Tire Compactors

Personnel Needs

Day 1:

2 Grader Drivers1 Water Truck Driver2 Tractor Drivers pulling water trailers1 Tractor Driver pulling disk1 Bulldozer Driver

Day 2:

2 Grader Drivers4 Water Truck Drivers3 Drum Compactor Drivers2 Sheep’s Foot Compactor Drivers2 Pneumatic Tire Compactor Drivers

Other Personnel:

1 Soil Technician (should be capable of training if necessary)1 Civil Engineer (should be capable of training)1 Operator Supervisor (should be familiar with the operation of the different pieces of equipment and able to train)

Project Planning

Site has been selected3 Training segments: 300, 300, 400 metersDemonstration road: 1-3km

Soil has been sampledConstruction plan in placeOperators selectedEquipment selected and procured and staged

Project Planning

2-3 hour meeting with PURE CRETE trainer

Review procedures Answer questions All participants must be in attendance

Operator meeting

Instructions and equipment operating procedures during the PURE CRETE process

Staff Engineer, Technician, Supervisor Meeting

Training Preparation

Training should be conducted in an area that is not going to be used as a demonstration of the final product.

Three separate segments of road are needed. The reason is that in our experience, it requires a team of trainees to complete 3 separate segments of road in order to be certified to apply Pure Crete.

Operators should be able to teach others the operation of their individually assigned pieces of equipment. It is recommended that each operator only operate one machine. This insures proficiency, efficiency and learning retention of the operator. With each operator working at their most efficient level, a properly equipped team can complete a kilometer per day after the first day. The road training segments are as follows:

By having the operator doing the same thing over and over every day he gets better, faster and more efficient. When each of the operators is working at their most efficient level, a properly equipped team can complete a kilometer per day after the first day. Remember it take two days per segment. First day mixing and the second day compacting.

DAY 1 Operations - Mixing

The first step is the use a D6 Cat or an equivalent with a rear mounted scarifiers. The soil is ripped with the Cat or with a Road Grader with rear mounted Scarifiers. This is operation saves time and is very efficient. This the only function assigned to the Cat Road Grader. The average ripping depth of this operation is 15 cm.


The Road Grader can perform the ripping operation in place of or in concert with the D6 Cat. The Road Grader is used in the mixing process to move the soil into windrows on the shoulders of the road. 2 Road Graders can easily rip up 1 km of soil in a few hours.

Day 1 Operations - Mixing

The tractor pulling water trailer is the most efficient piece of equipment to disperse the water treated Pure Crete on the soil that has been ripped and prepared for mixing. The soil will be hydrated to a level of 15 to 18 % during the Day 1 mixing operation. It is important to maintain the moisture content during this process. There should be a water supply that is close to the project of a tanker or water buffalo to be available to supply water to the water trailer. There are several nozzles that can be used to adjust the spray pattern.

Mix with a tractor pulling a disk behind the water trailer. This mixing operation breaks the soil into a fine consistency and disperses the Pure Crete with the fine soil particles. This facilitates the treatment of Pure Crete to cover a larger surface area on the soil particles. The disc will process 15 cm deep soil very effectively. The piece of equipment is only used on Day 1.

DAY 1 Operations- Mixing

DAY 1 Operations- Mixing

After the first 15 cm of soil has been ripped and mixed with the disc, the road graders move the soil to each side of the road in a windrow. All of the soil is moved to prepare for the next 15 cm of soil to be ripped by the D6 or Road Grader. The road graders follow the water trailer during this process. The soil should maintain the recommended moisture level.

DAY 1 OperationsRepeat process as many times as required

This should total at least 45cm in depth and provide enough soil to compact on Day 2 to achieve a 30cm compacted layer of PURE CRETE. The wind row should be wetted sufficiently for the overnight aeration period.

This should total at least 45cm in depth and provide enough soil to compact on Day 2 to achieve a 30cm compacted layer of PURE CRETE. The wind row should be wetted sufficiently for the overnight aeration period.


This concludes the DAY 1 of the Pure Crete mixing operation. If there is rain on the Day 1 operation that is more than a shower, the Day 1 operation should be repeated.

A DAY 1 production team can easily process 1 km of road in each work day.

DAY 2 - Compaction

Compaction is a very important process in the Pure Crete function in constructing a Pure Crete treated road base. One of the elements of the Pure Crete compacted layer is the structure of the compaction of the soil. The strength of the Pure Crete compacted layer system is majorly due to it’s construction patterned after the construction of plywood.

Pure Crete treated soil is compacted at much thinner layers than is the traditional way that road base is constructed. The natural bonding of the particles with Pure Crete requires 20 ton compaction to achieve the desired compaction capacities.

This type of layered construction does not allow pot holes to form.

Thoroughly wet the soil that was left in a windrow over night from Day 1. If the soil dries out overnight, one cycle of mixing with the Road Grader may be required. The water truck with a custom spray bar is used to apply the Pure Crete.

DAY 2 Operations - Compaction

Use the Road Grader to spread a loose soil layer 7-8cm thick over the entire surface of the road. Two Graders can work together to achieve excellent production.


Each layer of soil that is being compacted should be maintained in the recommended moisture content range of 12% to 14%.

The Sheep’s Foot compactor with vibrator is used first. This should be a 15 ton capacity compactor.


Compact with the 15 ton Sheep’s Foot Compactor each layer before the 20 ton Drum compactor completes the compaction of that layer. Water management is very important. When compacting in tandem, the compaction lanes that the compactors follow, they should offset their paths because following an inline track will create a tire track rut that will require extra passes. An offset pattern will prevent this occurrence.


Wetting the soil in order to maintain the moisture level for each layer that is processed. Each additional layer application process is repeated the same as the previous layers are process. The multiple operators work in a coordinated fashion to accomplish the desired production.


Deploy the Sheep’s Foot compactor to achieve maximum compaction before the Drum compactor is engaged. The number of passes will vary with the type and characteristics of the soil.


Deploy the drum compactor until the dimples created by the Sheep’s foot are at a minimum. The dimples create a lock and key affect with each layer. The number of passes will vary with the type and characteristics of the soil.


Compact the layer on both sides of the road and repeat the process until all of the processed soil is compacted. The number of compacted layers that will make up the total thickness of the Pure Crete compacted layer, will depend on the total desired or planned thickness which will determine the load bearing limits.


Use the vibrator mode with the Sheep's foot and Drum compactors on the first two layers or 50% of the number of total layers that are being processed. The final two compacted layers are compacted with the Drum compactor only and without vibrator mode on.


The pneumatic compactor is used to finish a Pure Crete road base when a final asphalt, chip coat thin asphalt or concrete surface is not going to be applied immediately after the Pure Crete road base is completed. This process will require multiple passes with wetting from the on board water reservoir to reduce the surface alligator cracks due to variable drying coefficient of the last layer that is compacted. The surface can also be finished with quarry dust to create a more pleasing appearance and surface traction. This process is the very last application. For road projects that are going to be finished with asphalt or chip coat, the surface does not require the use of a pneumatic compactors.

DAY 2 Operations – Final Compaction

For an asphalt application, hot oil can applied on DAY 3 in preparation for the asphalt or chip coat on DAY 4.

DAY 3 & 4 Asphalt application

A completed 40 ton Pure Crete road base capped with 3 inch asphalt finish layer successfully completed in 4 days.

DAY 4 Asphalt application and finishing

The recommended testing for the Pure Crete road base is the use of a Dual Mass DCP (Dynamic Cone Penetrometer) to collect the data to compute a CBR (California Bearing Rate) value.

Recommended Testing Procedures

Testing information and recommendations

Previous testing results are available on request. Note that any testing in the lab must take into consideration that to properly test the performance of Pure Crete the fact that the soil treated with Pure Crete must be compacted to 20 tons of pressure and allowed to dry to reach its strength and strength capacity. For best results in the lab, the CBR should be computed from the results of an in lab testing with a DCP. Proctor and modified Proctor protocols don’t specify the level of compaction that is required for testing Pure Crete.

Our experience has shown that a Proctor or modified proctor test result provides the potential properties of soil compaction characteristics of conventional compaction processing. Where as the results of the actual performance characteristics of soil treated with Pure Crete is best tested after application on the project site with a DCP to compute the CBR.

Properly applied Pure Crete should provide CBR results of 70 to 100 and compaction of up to 105% can be expected.

The application of Pure Crete can accomplish the production of at least one km of finished asphalt or chip coat road in a total of 3 to 4 days.

Pure Crete is an organic enzyme formulation designed to maximize compaction and increase the natural properties of soil to optimal conditions. An enzyme is a natural organic compound similar to proteins, which act as a catalyst. Their large molecular structures contain active sites that assist molecular bonding and interaction.When mixed with water and applied prior to compaction, Pure Crete acts upon organic fines contained in the soil through a catalytic bonding process, producing a strong cementation action. Unlike inorganic or petroleum based products which temporarily hold soil together, Pure Crete causes the soil to bond during compaction into a dense permanent base which resists water penetration, weathering and wear. This process takes place 72 hours under normal summer conditions. Pure Crete’s formulation increases the wetting action of water for increased penetration to assist compaction to obtain greater soil densities. Also, Pure Crete accelerates cohesive bonding of soil particles, creating a tight permanent stratum. Unlike inorganic or petroleum-based products with their temporary action, Pure Crete creates a dense and permanent base, which resists water penetration, weathering and wear.

Pure One Environmental, Inc. 3400 West Warner Ave Unit A Santa Ana, CA 92630

714 641 1430 949 400 2066

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