Quantification of Recycled Engine Oil Bottoms in Asphalt Binder Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Techniques
Publication: Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering
Volume 34, Issue 12
Abstract
Recycled engine oil bottoms (REOBs) are widely used in asphalt binders for modification and cost saving. However, more early road failures have appeared on the pavements constructed with REOB-modified asphalt binders in North America, leading to the bans and limits of its use and the interest in REOB’s quantification in asphalt binders. This study aims to systematically introduce a quantifying method via liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques. One base asphalt binder, two REOB resources, and eight blend samples were measured by NMR, NMR, and heteronuclear single-quantum correlation (HSQC) NMR. Peaks at 1.1 and 1.4 ppm in spectra and peaks at 31.2, 38.1, and 59.5 ppm in spectra were found only in REOB samples and asphalt samples containing REOBs and derived from polyisobutylene (PIB). The indexes of peak ratio and area ratio could well characterize the relative contents of REOB within a certain concentration range. Finally, an obvious peak at (1.4 ppm, 59.5 ppm) (F2, F1) was found and suggested as a characteristic peak of REOB via the HSQC NMR test.
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Acknowledgments
This study was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, SWJTU under Grant 2682021CX017, National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 51878575, 52008352, and 52178438, Sichuan Applied Basic Research Project (2021YJ0533), and Sichuan Science and Technology Program (2021JDTD0023). We would like to thank the Analytical and Testing Center of Southwest Jiaotong University for the testing and data analysis.
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Received: Dec 21, 2021
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Published online: Sep 23, 2022
Published in print: Dec 1, 2022
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