Tnk-50n 混凝土回收车 by Yong Zhang is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 重型机械设计 Competition Category.

铁重型机械· 2023

Tnk-50n 混凝土回收车

by Yong Zhang

Client: Liaoning Petrochemical University（School of Art and Design）

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 重型机械 Category

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The Design

About Tnk-50n 混凝土回收车

TNK-50N是一款大型工程车辆，专为将废弃混凝土再加工成透水砖而设计。该车由破碎、收集和再加工等独立模块组成。废弃混凝土在前部单元中被收集、破碎、筛分并清除杂质，随后输送至后部单元，在此掺入添加剂，并在透水砖模具中完成压制与养护。碳纤维与再生塑料的应用在增强强度的同时有效减轻了整车重量。无人驾驶技术引导整个作业流程，添加剂可通过侧面接口进行人工补充。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

Tnk-50n 混凝土回收车是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计Tnk-50n 混凝土回收车将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。Tnk-50n 混凝土回收车因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: TNK-50N is a large multi-functional waste concrete reprocessing engineering vehicle based on modular design. It is mainly used to process waste concrete into green permeable brick. The whole engineering vehicle adopts modular components and split design, and is equipped with crushing function module, collection function module and reprocessing module, to crush, collect, screen, remove impurities, hydraulic forming and other operations of the abandoned concrete.
Dimensions & Packaging: The car in front：4200mm×7500mm x 3000mm
The Car behind：4200mm×6600mm x 3000mm
Tags: Modular design, green environmental protection, resource reuse, sponge city, large engineering equipment
Production Technology: TNK-50N is an efficient construction machinery equipment, mainly used in crushing, screening, washing, mixing, mixing, extrusion and curing and other aspects of technology, the application of these technologies can not only improve the reuse rate of waste concrete, but also reduce the pollution to the environment. In order to achieve lightweight design of construction machinery products, TNK-50N uses new composite materials such as carbon fiber materials and recycled plastics to enhance the strength and durability of the entire engineering vehicle.
Design Challenge: The main difficulty of this design project is to integrate the process of multiple equipment, combine them reasonably together, in order to achieve efficient work flow. Considering that the process requires multiple operations, a discrete design method is adopted to divide the whole vehicle into multiple modules in order to better control the operation of each module and ensure that all parts of the whole vehicle can work together to smoothly complete various tasks.
Research: With the acceleration of urbanization, the construction industry is booming, but with the corresponding is a lot of construction waste. At present, the main way of disposal of construction waste is landfill, but this way has caused a serious burden on the ecological environment. In order to solve this problem, this design proposes a new treatment method, which is to transform construction waste and waste concrete into environmentally friendly permeable brick, so as to realize the recycling of construction waste resources and reduce the pollution to the environment.
Inspiration: The construction industry generates a large amount of waste each year, resulting in lost profits and negative impacts on the environment. At present, the disposal of construction waste is in a simple and disorderly state, and the recycling and resource utilization of construction waste cannot spontaneously form an industrial chain under market conditions. In addition, the durability of recycled concrete is poor, difficult to market.
Project Duration: The project started in October 2022 at in Shenyang, liaoning province, China, and finished in March 2023 at inShenyang, liaoning province China.
Operation Flow: In the working process of TNK-50N, the waste concrete is collected by the collector and transferred to the crusher in front of the vehicle for crushing and removing impurities. It is transported to the rear car through the transport port, and additives are added and then stirred by agitator. The stirred material is vibratingly pressed and solidified through the permeable brick mold. TNK-50N adopts driverless technology. When the additives in the body of the car are not available, they need to be added manually through the external interface of the additives on the side of the body.
Image Credits: Image #1: Photographer Yingqi Mu, Variations, 2023.
Image #2: Photographer Yingqi Mu, Variations, 2023.
Image #3: Photographer Yingqi Mu, Variations, 2023.
Image #4: Photographer Yingqi Mu, Variations, 2023.
Image #5: Photographer Yingqi Mu, Variations, 2023.