uhmwpe navigation aids
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Shandong Buoy&Pipe Industry Co.Ltd
UHMWPE Navigation Aids
UHMWPE Light House Presentation
Shandong Buoy&Pipe Industry Co.,Ltd is specialized in the researching and manufacturing of UHMWPE pipes and navigation aids products. Our company is the only manufacturer using UHMWPE material to produce navigation aids products in the world, and the only IALA(International Association of Light House Authorities) member of plastic buoys supplier in China. Our company have 18 national patents for UHMWPE navigation buoys and light houses. Futhermore, we are appointed to be the production base of navigation buoy and other support equipment for shipping in China 12th-Five-Year National Stratefy Plan,Shandong Penninsula Blue Economic Zone Development Program.
I. Brief Introduction
• The Light House is a special mark to guide the navigation and location of the ships, mark the
obstruction and warnings. It is made up by the pillar, platform and foundation. The platform
is used to install the signal lights to provide light and signals for the ships. The pillar is used
to support the platform.
The UHMWPE pillar has advantages of corrosion resistance, maintenance free and longer
service life, etc.
The average molecular weight for the UHMWPE material is 3.5 million to 9.2 million. It has
the superior properties of impact resistance, wear resistance, self lubrication and chemical
resistance among the plastics. Furthermore, UHMWPE material is good at low temperature
resistance. It can keep higher impact resistance at the temperature of -40℃, and could
work at -269℃.
II. UHMWPE Light House ILLUSTRATION
III. UHMWPE Light House PROPERTIES
1.Maintenance free: The UHMWPE Light House can be installed fast at the working site, and it is maintenance free without frequent painting. The foundation completely finds the solution for the sea water corrosion.
2. No mechanical construction: The UHMWPE Light House has split structure, which can be adjusted according to different heights. The height for each section is 0.75m to 1.0 m, with weight of 65kg to 150kg. It is easy for transportation and handling, without construction machinery.
3. Longer service life: The service life of UHMWPE Light House could be 10 times of steel beacon under same working condition.
4. Each section will be connected by 316L stainless steel bolts, which is reliable and easy to
assemble.
5. No color fading: The Clariant pigments are used for the mateiral. With UHMWPE material’s
own color, the light bacon could reach 8 grade sun-proofs.
6. The thermal deformation of UHMWPE material is 83℃, and it could keep mechanical
properties at low temperature of -70℃, which is much more superior to common plastics.
Therefore, the UHMWPE Light House will not be effected by temperature at the worldwide sea
areas
IV. UHMWPE Light House DEPLOYMENT GALLARY
UHMWPE Light House deployment brief introduction
• The UHMWPE Light House was successfully researched in 2009, and
they had been used in all the sea areas in China. The beacons are still
working very well after the powerful typhoons every year, and the pillar
keeps bright color and good structure until now.
• The earliest UHMWPE Light Houses in Xiamen had been used more
than four years. All the typhoons, named, "Linfa", "Morak",
"Lionrock", "Morandi", "Chub", "Sarika", "Nanmadol", "Talim",
"Saola", "Haikui", "Kaitak", "Tembin", "Soulik", etc, the maximum
winds reaches to be 13 grade typoon. All the Light Houses are working
well, pls see following pictures:
Xiamen Xiamen
Xiamen Xiamen
Tianjin Liaoning Yingkou
Yantai Qinshan
Ningbo
Ningbo Ningbo
Ningbo Ningbo
Yantai Port Qingdao
Maritime Supervision Terminal
Guangzhou
Yantai Weihai
Qingdao
Zhanjiang
UHMWPE Navigation Buoy
• UHMW-PE Navigation Buoy is kind of signal for vessel guiding, positioning,
obstacles marking and warning marking. The buoy consists of light stand, floating
body and tail pipe. The light stand is used for the signal light, which will provide light
signal for vessels, the floating body will provide sufficient buoyancy for the buoy, and
the tail pipe with ballast is to guarantee the stability of the buoy.
• The UHMW-PE navigation buoys are impact resistant, maintenance free, with
longer service life.
UHMWPE Navigation Buoy Properties
The external View of UHMWPE Navigation Buoy:
Innovative Advantages
• Minimum Maintenace Costs:
• 1. The color of the float is the material‘s own color, it will not need to paint.
Shanghai QualitySupervison and Inspection Institute tested the UHMWPE material
by aging tests according China nationla standard, there is no aging and fading,
which will minimize the costs for painting.
• 2. with strong non-adhesion, the floats and tail pipes will be not easy to adhere
water growth, minimize the costs for the cleaning.
• 3. With good collision resistance, the UHMWPE buoys are not easy to be damaged by ships, which minimize the costs for buoys repairment and replacement.
• Collison Resistance:
• 1. with good resilience and hardness, the buoy hull could absorb the collision energy and return to the original shape when impacted
• 2. with light weight, the buoy has small inertia, and it could shift qucikly to dissolve the collision strength to avoid the damaging.
• 3. with good toughness, the buoy is stretch resistant, and hard to be tear(UHMWPE break elongation is 453.7%, while steel material is 26%), which could maximumly absorb the collision energy.
• 4. there are strong steel skeleton supported, and high density waterproof polyurethane foam is filled inside the float, which will help the buoy to bounce back without distortion when impacted.
• 5. the safety guard ring for lantern is made by UHMWPE sheet, and supported by the steel frames, could absorb the collision energy and improve the protection to lantern and solar panels.
Longer Service Life:
• 1. with good chemical stability, the UHMWPE material has good corrosion resistance, and it will not decompose for decades in the sea.
• 2. Anti-aging additives are added within the UHMWPE material, it will not be aging for decades and the mechanical properties will not change.
• 3. the lantern stand is treated by phosphating, and marine grade paints will be painted, so the service life of lantern stand will be much longer.
• 4. The mooring eyes are connected with internal steel frame, so its loading capacity is largely increased.
Here is the comparison between the UHMWPE buoy and steel buoy after one year
deployment:
UHMWPE Buoy Steel Buoy
UHMWPE Navigation Buoy Collision Test Succeed in China
CCS(China Classification Society) inspected the quality of the UHMWPE
navigation buoy by the collision test at the Qilita Sea in Ningbo, China on
Sep 4, 2014.
• The test was organized by CCS, and Ningbo Navigation Buoy Bureau arranged its coast guard
ship No. 1648( 500 tons) to fulfill the tests by two times. During the first test, the ship speed
is 9 knots, hit from the side of the ship’s bow. There is slight deformation about 20*15 square
centimeters at the buoy surface, but it becomes to be its original shape after half an hour.
During the second test, the ship speed is 4.8 knots, hit from the front of the ship’s bow, the
UHMWPE buoy was pressed into water by the ship’s bow and floated on the water from the
ship’s stern. There is a little abrasion on the super structure and tail pipes due to the propeller
collision. The navigation buoy float, super structure, lantern and top mark are in good
condition. There is about 10*15 square centimeters area at the ship’s bow paint off, but no
damages with the ship.
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• This collision test proofed that the UHMWPE navigation buoy has benefit of collision
resistance and meanwhile it can protect the ship from damaging
Yantai PortQingdao port
Fuzhou Wenzhou
Taiwan Shenzhen
1.2M Diameter Portable Buoy
VXIII IALA Conference in Spain
V. Acheivements&Qualification
III. IALA Certificate
CCS Certificate
IV. ISO Certificate
V. Honors--China Navigation Science Awards
VI. Patents
The UHMWPE navigation buoys and light houses fill the global blank and break new
ground in the navigation aids fields, which will create enormous economic and social
benefits for the whole world.
VI.Application,Promotion&Prospects
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