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[[File:Plant processing tunnel rock.jpg|thumb|Processing plant at Amsteg in Switzerland. Processing tunnel rock from the Gotthard basis tunnel]] |
[[File:Plant processing tunnel rock.jpg|thumb|Processing plant at Amsteg in Switzerland. Processing tunnel rock from the Gotthard basis tunnel]] |
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Tunnel rock recycling or utilization is a method to utilize the rock excavated from tunneling into other needed areas besides as a landfill. |
'''Tunnel rock recycling''' or utilization is a method to utilize the rock excavated from tunneling into other needed areas besides as a landfill. |
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Concrete contains 50-80 % aggregates from sand and gravel and could potentially benefit from using aggregates produced from excavated tunnel rock. |
Concrete contains 50-80 % aggregates from sand and gravel and could potentially benefit from using aggregates produced from excavated tunnel rock. |
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Tunnel rock recycling or utilization is a method to utilize the rock excavated from tunneling into other needed areas besides as a landfill. Concrete contains 50-80 % aggregates from sand and gravel and could potentially benefit from using aggregates produced from excavated tunnel rock.
Todays road and railway tunnels are normally covered by concrete in the lining and portal. If the excavated rock was to be utilized as concrete aggregate it would be beneficial both economically and environmentally. It would be more value generating compared to use the excavated rock as landfill or filling up old quarries. Additionally, would the need to transport be significantly reduced as the utilization of the rock could be placed outside the tunnel portal with a processing facility and a concrete bathing plant. The investment cost of this facility would be repaid as the project could potentially be self-supplied on concrete. [1]
By 2018 its confirmed that 7 tunnel projects has accomplished to utilize tunnel rock into concrete on an industrial level, either as shotcrete or concrete elements in TBM tunneling, se list below.
Project | Country | Year | Km | Million tons(metric) | Utilization[%] | Diameter(mm) | Reference |
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Zugwald | Switzerland | NA- 1998 | 9.5 | 1.2 | 16% | >16 | [2] |
Gotthard base tunnel | Switzerland | 1999-2016 | 57.1 | 28.7 | 23% | >0 | [3] |
Koralm KAT2 | Austira | 2013-2023 | 21 | 8.6 | 17% | >16 | [4] |
Follo line | Norway | 2016-2021 | 19.5 | 9 | 10%* | >20 | [5],[6] |
Lötschberg | Switzerland | 1999-2007 | 34.6 | 16 | 29.1% | >0 | [7] |
Linthal | Switzerland | 2010-2015 | 3.7 | 1 | 100% | >0 | [8] |
Nant de Drance | Switzerland | 2008-2016 | 5.5 | 1.14 | 25% | >0 | [9] |
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