HYSON-CELLS

Tel +27 +11 957-2478
Fax +27 +86 504-4738
Cell +27 +83 565-7111
email: info@hysoncells.co.za

Our planned content for this site

This is the site plan - the company's activities that we intend to put on the site. See the Site map for what exists at present.
Constructive comment to info@hysoncells.co.za is welcomed

Applications

Overview
Civil engineering
- Roads & paving
  - Rural roads
    - Roads and drains combined
    - Narrow roads
    - Using on-site material
  - Urban roads
    - Types of installation
    - New roads
    - Overlays on existing roads
  - Freeways
    - New roads
    - Overlays on existing roads
      - Normal production
      - Quickset overnight production
    - Damaged layerworks
  - Container yards
    - New yards
    - Overlays
      - Normal production
      - Quicksets
    - Damaged layerworks
  - Mine haulage roads
    - Underground trackless mining
    - Opencast haulage roads
  - Causeways
    - Light 80 Kn traffic
    - Heavy mine traffic
  - Culvert protection
    - Velocities
    - Culvert outlets
  - Aircraft runways and hard standing
    - Light aircraft
    - Main runways (new)
    - Main runway (fast track rehabilitation)
- Railway formation layers
  - New lines
  - Rehabilitation using ballast cleaners
- Canals drains and channels
  - Velocities
    - 0 to 5 m/sec
    - 5 to 10 m/sec
    - 10 to 20 m/sec
    - Velocity chart
  - Environmental considerations
    - Dry climate
    - Wet climate
    - Frost
    - Extreme desert conditions
  - Nature of fluid transported
    - Clean water
    - Dirty water
    - If solids must be filtered
  - Trafficking considerations
    - Light vehicles
    - Heavy vehicles
    - Mine open-cast haulage vehicles
  - Ground conditions
    - High or fluctuating water table
    - Clay
    - Windblown sand
    - Dispersive sands
    - Toxic land fills
    - Porous dolomite
    - Salt contaminated lands
  - Profiles
    - Trapezoidal
    - Parabolic
    - Natural undulations
  - Cell fills
  - Canals
    - Wetted perimeter < 5 metres
    - Wetted perimeter < 20 metres
    - Wetted perimeter 20 metres to 100 metres
- Embankment protection
  - Slope <45 degrees
  - Slope >45 degrees
  - Vegetated embankments
  - Mock rock & vegetation
  - Plane surfaces
  - Undulating surfaces
  - Building sites & sports fields
  - Mine dumps & ash dumps
  - Land fills
- Settlement ponds, spillways & riprap
- Ponds & resevoirs
  - Landscaping
  - Sewage
  - Resevoirs
  - Chemical impoundments
- Toxic ponds and landfill liners
  - See chemical engineering
- Dam walls
  - Under 5 m high
  - Over 5 m high
  - Walls built with sand
    - Earthen dam walls
    - Subterranean dams
  - Built with waste products
  - Cladding of walls
    - See spillways
    - See riprap
  - Retaining walls
    - Gravity mass walls
    - Layered walls (max layer 250mm)
    - Layered walls (layer 250mm to 4m)
Mining engineering
- Mine roads
- Stope support system
  - <1 m high
  - >1 m high
- Backfill
- Firewalls
- Dams & evaporation ponds
- Thickener tanks
- Tailings dam protection
Marine applications
- Harbour walls
  - <10 m high
  - >10 m high
  - Sand filled walls
  - Poor founding materials
- Artificial reefs & wave dissipation
  - Size of waves
  - Rehabilitation of marine growth
- Dune protection
  - Cladding for wave protection
  - Cladding for wind erosion protection
    - Vegetation
    - Sandcrete
  - Access for vehicles
Chemical and Bio Engineering
- Liners for toxic storage
  - Single layer
  - Double layer
  - Mechanical cleaning
  - Type of chemicals stored
    - Hydrocarbons
    - Chemical fertiliser waste
    - Mining waste
    - Power station waste
- Water & sewerage purification
- Chemical thickeners
- Methane digester
  - Type of biomass
    - Animal waste
    - Abbatoirs
    - Canning
    - Wineries
    - Sugar wastes
- Purification pack
  - Potable water
  - Sewage
  - Mine waste
  - Chemical thickeners
  - Mine tailings
  - Sugar processing
- Algae & fish pond filtration
- Oil skimmer
Agricultural engineering
- Roads
- Animal house flooring
- Waste treatment
- Dams & spillways
- Riprap
- Canals
- Irrigation storage dams
- Fish & algae farming

Cell fills

Ready Mix concrete
- Mix designs
- Placing details
- Quality control
Pumpable quickset concrete
- Mix designs
- Equipment
- Placing details
- Quality control
On-site concrete
- Mix designs
- Placing details
- Quality control
No-fines concrete
- Mix designs
- Placing details
- Quality control
No-fines concrete with vegetation
Top dressing
Quality control
In-situ soil with vegetation
- Placing details
- Types
- Compaction
- Types of vegetation
Mine waste or ash waste
- Placing details
- Compaction
- Problems
Soilcrete, sandcrete or ashcrete
- Types of materials
- Mixing instructions
- Compaction
- Limitations

Finishes

Hyson Cells Features

Unique benefits of Hyson Cells concrete "cell slabs"
- The lock-up effect
- Release of hydrostatic pressure
- Termination techniques
How Hyson Cells are different to other geocells
- Wall thickness
- Wall deformation
- In-situ patented rigging and safe, speedy filling
- Dimensions of a module
- Weight of a module
- Trimming and joining modules
Load bearing with granular fill
On-site productivity with Hyson Cells
- Speed of filling
- Cutting and joining packs
- Benefits of large packs
Using Hyson Cells in remote areas
1st World and 3rd World options
Design and Build / Build Operate and Transfer

Services

Mechanistic design model
Costing guidelines
Hyson Cells installation instructions
On-site training

Research

Ideas

Photo tour

Request docs

Links