Evaluation of Rejuvenator's Effectiveness with Conventional Mix Testing for 100% RAP Mixtures
TRB 92nd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers 2013
Mārtiņš Zaumanis, Rajib Mallick, Robert Frank

This paper presents research evaluating effectiveness of rejuvenators for production of very high (40-100%) Reclaimed Asphalt pavement (RAP) content mixtures. Nine differently originated softening agents were tested, including plant oils, waste derived oils, engineered products, as well as traditional and non-traditional refinery base oils. Two different dosages of the agents were added to binder extracted from RAP to evaluate their softening potential through testing of kinematic viscosity and penetration at two different temperatures. At 25°C the softening efficiency varied by a factor of twelve between the most and least effective rejuvenators. Consistency results at different temperatures were used to express temperature susceptibility by means of Penetration Index (PI), Penetration-Viscosity Number (PVN) and Bitumen Test Data Chart (BTDC) of the softened binders. The PI results varied measurably depending on the rejuvenator and supported the low temperature mixture test results, showing that PI may be a good and simple measure of rejuvenation effectiveness. Low temperature mixture embrittlement was evaluated at -10°C through determination of the indirect tensile strength and creep compliance for rejuvenated 100% RAP mixture samples. It can be concluded that four of the nine tested rejuvenators reduced extracted binder consistency to the necessary level and reduced susceptibility of RAP mixtures to low temperature embrittlement. Of the four, two engineered products tested had notably different performance but neither was superior to similar generic oils.


Keywords
RAP< Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement, Rejuvenators, Sustainable asphalt
Hyperlink
http://trid.trb.org/view/2013/C/1240996

Zaumanis, M., Mallick, R., Frank, R. Evaluation of Rejuvenator's Effectiveness with Conventional Mix Testing for 100% RAP Mixtures. In: TRB 92nd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers. Washington: Transportation Research Board, 2013, pp.1-14.

Publication language
English (en)
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