From Crude Oil to the Road Beneath Your Wheels
In short: How crude oil is distilled in two stages, then selected, hardened and blended into bitumen, the binder that holds stone together in asphalt roads.
A 2:09 short film in the series “How Things Work”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Bitumen | Oil Sands, Extraction & Refining”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Road - The modern road | Britannica”; BP Bitumen business unit (Dan Weidman), presentation dated 7 December 2006, hosted on a University of Illinois engineering site, “Microsoft PowerPoint - WEIDMAN.ppt”; CSJM University, Kanpur (csjmu.ac.in), Gyan Sanchay e-content lecture notes 'L-34 Manufacture of bitumen', “MANUFACTURE OF BITUMENS”; Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University (CSJMU), Kanpur: lecture notes 'Air Blowing Process for Manufacture of Bitumen', “AIR BLOWING PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURE OF BITUMEN”; Elsevier (Construction and Building Materials, ScienceDirect), “Investigation of physicochemical and rheological properties of SARA components separated from bitumen”; The Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (FSC 432: Petroleum Refining course, materials by Semih Eser), “Atmospheric and Vacuum Distillation Units”; Iraqi Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering (University of Baghdad), “Studying Thermal Cracking Behavior of Vacuum Residue”; U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Office of Preconstruction, Construction, and Pavements (TechBrief FHWA-HIF-22-003, July 2021), “Resource Responsible Use of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement in Asphalt Mixture”; Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, “Warm Mix Asphalt Technologies and Research - WMA - Sustainability - Pavements - Federal Highway Administration”.
Sources used in this film
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Bitumen | Oil Sands, Extraction & Refining · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Road - The modern road | Britannica · View →
- BP Bitumen business unit (Dan Weidman), presentation dated 7 December 2006, hosted on a University of Illinois engineering site — Microsoft PowerPoint - WEIDMAN.ppt · View →
- CSJM University, Kanpur (csjmu.ac.in), Gyan Sanchay e-content lecture notes 'L-34 Manufacture of bitumen' — MANUFACTURE OF BITUMENS · View →
- Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University (CSJMU), Kanpur: lecture notes 'Air Blowing Process for Manufacture of Bitumen' — AIR BLOWING PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURE OF BITUMEN · View →
- Elsevier (Construction and Building Materials, ScienceDirect) — Investigation of physicochemical and rheological properties of SARA components separated from bitumen · View →
- The Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (FSC 432: Petroleum Refining course, materials by Semih Eser) — Atmospheric and Vacuum Distillation Units · View →
- Iraqi Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering (University of Baghdad) — Studying Thermal Cracking Behavior of Vacuum Residue · View →
- U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Office of Preconstruction, Construction, and Pavements (TechBrief FHWA-HIF-22-003, July 2021) — Resource Responsible Use of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement in Asphalt Mixture · View →
- Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation — Warm Mix Asphalt Technologies and Research - WMA - Sustainability - Pavements - Federal Highway Administration · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Bitumen | Oil Sands, Extraction & Refining | Britannica
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Road - The modern road | Britannica
- Also: BP Bitumen business unit (Dan Weidman), presentation dated 7 December 2006, hosted on a University of Illinois engineeri: Microsoft PowerPoint - WEIDMAN.ppt
- Also: CSJM University, Kanpur (csjmu.ac.in), Gyan Sanchay e-content lecture notes 'L-34 Manufacture of bitumen': MANUFACTURE OF BITUMENS
- Also: Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University (CSJMU), Kanpur: lecture notes 'Air Blowing Process for Manufacture of Bitumen': AIR BLOWING PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURE OF BITUMEN
- Also: Elsevier (Construction and Building Materials, ScienceDirect): Investigation of physicochemical and rheological properties of SARA components separated from bitumen
- Also: The Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (FSC 432: Petroleum Refining course, materials : Atmospheric and Vacuum Distillation Units
- Also: Iraqi Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering (University of Baghdad): Studying Thermal Cracking Behavior of Vacuum Residue
- Also: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Office of Preconstruction, Construction, and P: Resource Responsible Use of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement in Asphalt Mixture
- Also: Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation: Warm Mix Asphalt Technologies and Research - WMA - Sustainability - Pavements - Federal Highway Administration
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