Abstract:
A series of treatments are performed on old asphaltic pavement to make it suitable for being satisfactorily applied as a new mat. The old asphaltic pavement is heated and scarified to form a loose aggregate-asphaltic mixture while remaining on the ground surface. The mixture is removed from the ground surface and heated in an elongated rotary housing having heated conductors without direct flame contact with the mixture, and the mixture is then thoroughly mixed with a conditioner for old asphaltic pavement, and finally is reapplied to the ground surface as a new mat. The treatments are carried out by independently operable, portable apparatus during the movement of all of the apparatus in a coordinated train that moves over the ground surface.
Abstract:
An improved apparatus for recycling asphaltic concrete includes an inclined chute for introducing composition into an open port into which a burner also feeds hot gases of combustion. The apparatus provides for improved continuous processing by feeding composition containing relatively large particle sizes into the open port and recovering heated composition adjacent the opposite drum end.
Abstract:
An improved method and apparatus for producing hot mix asphalt utilizing new aggregate and a previously manufactured and laid asphalt mix which has been reduced to form recyclable aggregate, wherein the new aggregate is fed into the input end of a rotating mixer drum and cascaded repeatedly through a flame extending from the input end of the mixer drum to a first medial portion thereof and the recyclable aggregate is fed radially into the mixer drum at a second medial portion thereof intermediate the first medial portion and the output end of the mixer drum, the new aggregate shielding the mixer drum from the flame and confining the flame to the portion of the mixer drum between the input end and the first medial portion thereof.
Abstract:
An improved asphalt-aggregate recycling process includes heating asphalt-aggregate composition by direct exposure to hot gases of combustion to form a gaseous exhaust mixture of carbon dioxide, water vapor and hydrocarbon volatiles from the heated asphalt, subjecting the gaseous mixture to a centrifugal force sufficient to separate the mixture into a first layer comprising a major amount of the hydrocarbon volatile condensate particles, and a second layer comprising a major amount of the carbon dioxide and water vapor. The first layer containing the condensed hydrocarbon volatiles is then separated out and preferably directed to a hydrocarbon burner as fuel for heating the asphalt-aggregate composition. The improved apparatus improves means for centrifugally physically separating the hydrocarbon from the gaseous mixture.
Abstract:
A process for recycling asphalt-aggregate compositions comprises heating pieces of the used composition to form a semifluid or viscous composition, detecting the composition's asphalt deficiency and adding the proper amount of make-up asphalt. The composition is heated in a rotating cylindrical oven to achieve homogeneity, the viscous composition is drawn off, detected for asphalt deficiency, the proper amount of asphalt is added and the composition is then stored until required for use. Asphalt deficiency is detected by exposing the composition to a light source and measuring the amount of light reflected.