Thermal recovery techniques for producing oil sands have substantial environmental impacts.Surfactants can efficiently improve thermal bitumen recovery and reduce the required amount of steam.Such a technique requires...
This research is devoted to the study of creep behavior of asphalt binder in hot region.This binder was subjected to thermal cycles due to the variation of temperature from day to night.These cycles produce a heating-...
The research is funded by the NEXT GENERATION EU–PNRR project ex D.M.352/2022.The authors would like to thank ENI S.p.A for supporting this research.
Many industrial sectors exploit fossil sources to develop useful and necessary materials for our needs,such as bituminous paving materials.Bitumen,a key component of asphalt mixtures,is derived from oil refining and i...
This article deals with the influence of the partial substitution of bitumen by a mixture of sulphur and tyre and plastic bottle powders on the characterization of asphalt concrete. The approach adopted was to subject...
In this work,the design and construction of a continuous and pilot-scale flotation facility are demonstrated.The performance of the new facility was evaluated from series of pilot flotation tests,carried out using oil...
the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2016YFE0202400);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.U20A20315,51922035,and U1633201)。
This paper reports a comparative study of microcapsules with enhanced thermal stability and electrical conductivity inspired by the bionic thermal insulation of birds’feathers for self-healing aged asphalt.The work i...
The authors sincerely acknowledge the Ministry of Higher Education,Malaysia for the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme with Project Code:FRGS/1/2021/TK01/USM/02/1 that enabled them to conduct this research work.Special thanks to material suppliers for extending their support.The authors also express their appreciation to the technicians of the Highway Engineering Laboratory and Materials Engineering Laboratory at Universiti Sains Malaysia for their help.
The modification of asphalt binder with natural rubber latex(NR)significantly improves the rutting and fatigue resistance of asphalt mixtures.However,NR-modified binder is prone to low workability and wettability due ...
There are numerous methods and additives available to improve the durability and quality of road bitumen. A coal tar obtained by coal coking was distilled in a laboratory into fractions of initial boiling point IBP-18...
supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(Grant number:BK20140260);Joint Project of Industry-University-Research of Jiangsu Province(Grant number:BY2018158,BY2021590);State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing.
Indonesian oil sands were systematically separated to investigate their basic composition.The extraction effects of the solvents with different Hilderbrand solubility parameters(HSPs)on the bitumen of Indonesian oil s...
An earlier study of GC-MS analysis on bitumen samples from the Agbabu area in Western Niger Delta showed the significant presence of gammacerane and no Oleanane and is suggested to be generated from the Lower Cretaceo...