Editor's Note:
A conundrum, known as the "Devil's Triangle", which has plagued the tire industry for a hundred years;
A material, known as liquid gold, whose invention broke the "cocoon" of the entire tire industry;
A revolution, known as Tire Manufacturing 4.0, will reshape the standard to lead development, making China's tire manufacturing a new benchmark in the world;
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Qingdao is an important manufacturing base in China, and is now rapidly overtaking in the new outlet of industrial interconnection. Here, tire manufacturing takes the lead, no longer imitating but leading. And why the rounds? Able to break the "Devil's Triangle" and invent the manufacture of liquid gold tires? Why can liquid gold tires achieve excellence in three major aspects such as fuel saving, wear resistance, and moisture slip resistance at the same time, and what revolutionary and iterative changes can this bring? Next, I will read them for you.
Qilu Evening News Qilu one-point reporter Shang Qinglong
How fuel-efficient can liquid gold tires save? Sailun Group has calculated a set of data: if according to China's 2020 car tire annual sales volume of 250 million, the average mileage of each tire is 150,000 kilometers, if all liquid gold tires can be used, more than 5 West Lakes can be saved, if according to the 2020 truck China domestic sales of more than 80 million, the average mileage of each tire is 400,000 kilometers, all replaced by liquid gold tires, you can save more than 6 West Lakes of oil. With such excellent fuel savings, how do liquid gold tires do it? Lay out the facts and be reasonable! Next, listen to the professional explanations of the technical experts of Sailun Group.
Look at the data!
Liquid luteal tires are more fuel efficient
Numbers don't lie. In particular, the measured data certified by international professional authoritative third-party organizations is the most illustrative.
On November 7, 2021, the international independent third-party testing, inspection and certification agency TV Rheinland announced the results of the road fuel consumption test of the liquid gold tires of Racing Wheel at the booth site of the 4th China International Import Expo. Sailun Liquid Gold Tires were awarded the "Energy Saving Pioneer" Award by TV Rheinland for their excellent fuel consumption test data.
In this real vehicle fuel consumption test (Qingdao to Yinchuan), the total weight of the vehicle and cargo is 48 tons, the new tire of the racing wheel liquid gold truck tire 12R22.5 SFL12 tire fuel consumption is the lowest, and the comprehensive fuel consumption of 100 kilometers is 35.63L. This fuel consumption test result is 18.26% lower than the similar products that international first-line brands feedback the best in China's heavy-duty truck market, 16.56% lower than the similar products that domestic first-line brands have the best feedback in China's heavy-duty truck market, 11.24% lower than the main sales of domestic first-line brands in the supporting market, and 7.96L, 7.07L and 4.51L respectively.
Not only this liquid gold tire, Zhang Yunxiu, director of the TB Research Office of the Technology Research and Development Center of Sailun Group, said that the company has conducted more than 30 times of actual measurement on trucks, cars, buses, new energy vehicles and other types of vehicles before and after, and the results have proved that under the same conditions, whether it is an international first-line brand or a well-known domestic brand, the fuel saving effect of liquid gold tires is the best.
Sailun Group has internally calculated such a set of data: if according to China's 2020 car tire sales of 250 million, based on the average mileage of 150,000 kilometers per tire, if all liquid gold materials can be used, it can save 74.7 billion liters of fuel (about equal to 5.27 West Lakes). If we calculate that in 2020, the domestic sales of truck tires in China are more than 80 million, and the average mileage of each tire is 400,000 kilometers, if all liquid gold materials can be used, it can save 89.5 billion liters of fuel (about 6.31 West Lakes). That is to say, if all the new car tires and truck tires sold in 2020 are replaced by liquid gold tires, in a tire life cycle, the amount of oil that can be saved is 11 West Lakes.
Look at the results!
A truck with 22 tires can save nearly 100,000 a year
Excellent fuel-saving performance can bring huge economic and social benefits. Especially for trucks with relatively high operating pressure, the fuel saved is equivalent to the profits "earned" by hard work. The same is the data to speak: 22 tires per vehicle, under the actual vehicle test data, according to the annual mileage of 200,000 kilometers, liquid gold truck tires (rolling resistance A-class) than the domestic first-line brands in china's heavy truck market feedback the best similar products save 14,000 L / car, according to the oil price of 7 yuan / calculation, a year's fuel saving amount of nearly 100,000 yuan.
"Whether it is our professional tests with T V Rheinland, or in various tests such as 'Journey Around the Country', the fuel savings of liquid gold truck tires have been widely recognized and are included in the tire replacement list by more and more truck drivers." Zhang Yunxiu said that in fact, for private cars, the fuel-saving effect of liquid gold tires is also obvious. Many private car owners have a misunderstanding, that the vehicle fuel consumption is mainly related to the displacement of the engine, in fact, the vehicle fuel consumption is mainly affected by the engine, mechanical resistance, wind resistance, but there is also an important part is the rolling resistance of the tire. Therefore, if you change to a liquid gold tire with less rolling resistance, the fuel saving effect is also obvious. According to the data, for every 10 percentage points reduction in the rolling resistance coefficient of tires, the fuel consumption per 100 kilometers can be reduced by 3%.
Demystifying:
Fuel saving secret for liquid gold tires
The biggest secret of liquid gold tire fuel saving is that its rolling resistance is greatly reduced, which can be reduced by more than 20% on average compared to existing brands on the market. Why is this possible? Let's start with the revolutionary material invention of liquid gold.
Liquid gold material is made by using the world's first chemical rubber refining technology, which is to make the rubber, filler, and compound mixed materials fully and uniformly under the condition of continuous liquid phase, compared with the traditional dry mixing technology (physical rubber refining technology), the filler can be evenly dispersed at the nanoscale, and the polymer interaction is enhanced. "To take a simple example, it's like we used to add alkali noodles to the flour, no matter how you knead it, it still has a poor degree of fusion with the flour. If mixed with water, it will definitely be more fully integrated when kneading. Director Zhang showed reporters a picture of the filler disperser, the traditional green tire silica undispersed area accounted for 5.7%, while the liquid gold silica undisturbed area was only 0.4%.
"It is precisely based on the revolutionary upgrade of the material that the liquid gold tire has lower rolling resistance and is more fuel-efficient." In the next step, Sailun Group will rely on liquid gold materials and rely on the world's four major R&D centers to continuously improve the structure and pattern of tires to better adapt to the local car environment and achieve the best use effect.
Liquid gold tire is a long-term commitment to scientific and technological innovation and key technological breakthroughs, to create an innovative product with industry influence and international competitiveness, after many rounds of practical testing, its excellent fuel-saving performance will bring huge economic benefits to users, and will be outstanding safety, energy saving, emission reduction advantages, to promote tire products to achieve technological upgrading, leading the world rubber industry to open a new chapter.
In the future, Sailun Group will continue to improve its independent innovation capabilities, continue to promote product structure optimization, create an industry "wind vane" with high-quality and high-standard products, and actively assume corporate responsibility, unswervingly take the road of green and low-carbon high-quality development, and shoulder the mission and responsibility of leading China's tire industry to become a world rubber industry power during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.