Microwave properties of bitumen modified with waste cooking oil (WCO)

Bitumen is a rheological, viscoelastic, thermoplastic and extremely complex material that has hydrocarbons as its predominant molecules with slight traces of others. Bitumen is semi solid at room temperature, liquid at high temperature and solid at very low temperature. Due to its complexity, till d...

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Main Author:	Adamu, Ibrahim Aliyu
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General) Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81029/1/IbrahimAliyuAdamuMSKA2019.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.810292019-07-24T03:06:06Z Microwave properties of bitumen modified with waste cooking oil (WCO) 2019-01 Adamu, Ibrahim Aliyu TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Bitumen is a rheological, viscoelastic, thermoplastic and extremely complex material that has hydrocarbons as its predominant molecules with slight traces of others. Bitumen is semi solid at room temperature, liquid at high temperature and solid at very low temperature. Due to its complexity, till date complete understanding of its properties have not been fully known. Various techniques/methods have been developed by many researchers in order to study the behaviour of this complex material. In this work, we studied the performance of bitumen PEN 60 – 70 and PG 76 modified with Waste Cooking Oil (WCO) using the conventional tests and, Dielectric Constant (DC) and Loss Factor (LF). The conventional tests conducted were penetration, softening point and viscosity tests. The DC measurement was carried out at 2.45 GHz (ISM Band) while the LF was measured at 500 MHz frequencies. The results of the conventional tests show that increasing the percentage of WCO has effect on the bitumen binders by increasing their penetration values and at the same time decreasing their softening point and viscosity. Also based on the DC value, the performance of PG 76 bitumen binder reduced with the increment in the WCO percentage. However, the results of the LF for two modified bitumen binders were illogical. Comparatively, the modified PG 76 bitumen binder will performance better than the modified PEN 60 – 70 bitumen. 2019-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81029/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81029/1/IbrahimAliyuAdamuMSKA2019.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:124986 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Engineering - School of Civil Engineering Faculty of Engineering - School of Civil Engineering
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description	Bitumen is a rheological, viscoelastic, thermoplastic and extremely complex material that has hydrocarbons as its predominant molecules with slight traces of others. Bitumen is semi solid at room temperature, liquid at high temperature and solid at very low temperature. Due to its complexity, till date complete understanding of its properties have not been fully known. Various techniques/methods have been developed by many researchers in order to study the behaviour of this complex material. In this work, we studied the performance of bitumen PEN 60 – 70 and PG 76 modified with Waste Cooking Oil (WCO) using the conventional tests and, Dielectric Constant (DC) and Loss Factor (LF). The conventional tests conducted were penetration, softening point and viscosity tests. The DC measurement was carried out at 2.45 GHz (ISM Band) while the LF was measured at 500 MHz frequencies. The results of the conventional tests show that increasing the percentage of WCO has effect on the bitumen binders by increasing their penetration values and at the same time decreasing their softening point and viscosity. Also based on the DC value, the performance of PG 76 bitumen binder reduced with the increment in the WCO percentage. However, the results of the LF for two modified bitumen binders were illogical. Comparatively, the modified PG 76 bitumen binder will performance better than the modified PEN 60 – 70 bitumen.
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author	Adamu, Ibrahim Aliyu
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title	Microwave properties of bitumen modified with waste cooking oil (WCO)
title_short	Microwave properties of bitumen modified with waste cooking oil (WCO)
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title_full_unstemmed	Microwave properties of bitumen modified with waste cooking oil (WCO)
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granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Engineering - School of Civil Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Engineering - School of Civil Engineering
publishDate	2019
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Microwave properties of bitumen modified with waste cooking oil (WCO)

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