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Ground Freezing

Freezing soil with liquid nitrogen.

Solidifying and sealing is daily business in the construction industry. Under certain conditions, ground freezing with liquid nitrogen is the best solution compared to conventional soil treatment methods.

Customer benefits

During the last two decades soil freezing with liquid nitrogen (LIN) has developed from an exotic gas application with lots of uncertainties into a standard procedure for treating unstable soil and leakages.

Using this process together with our experts offers numerous advantages:

  • The set-up of a LIN-freezing plant can be done quickly as large quantities of specialist hardware is available in stock

  • The investments for a LIN freezing plant is only a fraction of the amount to install a brine freezing unit

  • The temperature of the frozen soil is substantially lower compared to the use of a brine freezing plant, which increases stability

  • The low temperature of LIN (-196°C)  allows freezing in about 4 to 7 days which is substantial faster than the brine freezing process which easily can take a month

  • Environmental friendly process, no hazardous substances, no vibrations and no ground water pollution or extraction

  • Automatically working process

  • Flexible in design of frozen soil

  • Combination of sealing and static support

  • High tolerance to soil humidity (5 – 100%)

  • Frozen soil is 100% watertight, there is no leakage

  • The hardness of frozen soil is comparable to concrete

  • The solidification of the soil is only temporary. After shutting down the LIN-supply the frozen soil will melt in a few weeks.

  
Liquid nitrogen

The liquefied nitrogen (LIN) is produced in air separation plants. LIN has a temperature of -196°C (-320.80oF) and is stored in vacuum insulated vessels with some 10.000 litres volume.

Process description installation

The copper freeze pipes with a standard diameter of 54mm are installed with an average distance of 0.5 to 0.8 metres. On the inside, downpipes (diameter 10 to 12mm) are installed.

Freezing

The LIN is fed into the pipes through insulated supply lines. Hereby the LIN vaporises, whereas 1kg of LIN is extracting an energy of abut 200kJ out of the surrounding soil which cools down and freezes.

The vaporised cold GAN (gaseous nitrogen), also called exhaust gas, additionally extracts about 100kJ  out of the ground. The temperature of the exhaust gas is used for controlling a solenoid valve. This way there is guaranteed to be a steady flow and the most efficient use of LIN.

After a while the growing frozen areas around the freeze pipes touch, merge and finally grow further as a closed and watertight wall. In about one week this process forms a frozen wall with an diameter of about 1 metre.

This so called establishing phase normally lasts four to seven days. The total LIN consumption in this time is about 1500 to 2500 litre LIN for 1m³ of frozen soil. Geological influences (thermal sources, water flow etc.) can influence this value.

Maintaining the freeze

In the subsequent maintenance-phase the LIN-supply is reduced, and the frozen soil stops growing and keeps its volume. To maintain 1 m³ of frozen soil it takes about 90 litre LIN/day.

Stopping the freeze

When the LIN-supply is stopped, the frost body starts melting and will be gone in a few weeks.

Designing a freeze site

When making a freeze design for static support and/or sealing purpose a lot of parameters have to be taken into consideration.

The two main goals we try to achieve are:

  • Maximum safety

  • Minimised LIN consumption.

With experience from more than 100 freeze project and many basic research studies in the last three decades we are able to offer the best solution.

Full service

We do not only deliver liquid nitrogen. According to customer needs we can offer:

  • Static calculations
  • Drilling
  • Installation
  • Maintenance  

Global coverage

Together with our specialised industrial service group we can guarantee quality globally. Our recent projects in Singapore, already five, are running according to schedule despite of very difficult conditions (45m below surface, soil temperature 26°C 978.80oF, blasting in the tunnel)

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