Asphaltica ®

Asphalt Innovation Companies of America

Asphaltica’s multi-patented processes reconditions highly oxidized bitumen allowing time for the osmotic reactions to take place inside a protected pellet – a paving pellet.

 

 

waste not – want not

Totally New and Improved Methods

Not a grind-up and dump-in process

Asphaltica® approached the decades old problems and failures of recycling asphalt materials with a novel and practical approach: Recycled asphalt material (RAM). Unlike the prior efforts of “grind it up and dump it in” the hot plants with an oil additive we focused on proper recycling of asphalt pavements and roofing shingles. They both contain oxidized bitumen that can be reconstituted if done correctly.

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Why Pre-Treat Recycled Shingles?

Recycled Asphalt Shingles (RAS) will definitely add to Asphalt Cement (AC) content in Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) when tested in the ignition furnace. However, the AC in the RAS does not liquefy at HMA mixing temperatures. The RAS AC just acts as black rocks in the HMA and not as a binder.

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Increased Efficiency

Asphaltica has patented a process to condition RAS and RAP, allowing time for osmotic reactions to take place inside a protected pellet.

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Already In Use

Asphaltica has been working on improving the use of RAS (Recycled Asphalt Shingles) and RAP (Recycled Asphalt Pavement) for several years now.

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Proven Test Results

Extensive testing on RAP and RAS has been done for decades by many National Institutions – NCAT, NAPA, Federal Highways, and many others involved in Hot Mix Asphalt mix designs and research. 

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Improved Perfomance

Minimizes potential detrimental low-temperature effecrts of RAS while still allowing for higher stiffness at high temperatures.

Benefits of Using

Minimizes the potential detrimental low-temperature effects of RAS, while still allowing for higher stiffness at higher temperatures.

Saves Money

Reduces the use of asphalt cement used in producing hot-mix asphaltic pavements. It also decreases the asphalt stripping effect from water thereby eliminating the need for added anti-stripping agents to the hot mix. 

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ARP Pellets

Every year Americans dispose of over 15,000,000 tons of waste asphalt roofing shingles into our rapidly growing American landfills…. And we all pay to dispose of them. That is over 690,000,000 gallons of oil annually. *

Before Asphaltica’s triple-patented process was perfected, a small percentage of these waste shingles were ground up and dumped in the roadway hot mix. The untreated RAS does not combine with the virgin binder and therefore is not effective asphalt in the hot mix. Many continue to use additives to treat shingles in the entire HMA product to this day but results are varied.

*These waste shingles contain up to 20% oxidized asphalt oil along with fiberglass backing, sand and small aggregates.

Asphaltica believes in waste valorization. We take these waste shingles and pre-treat them with bio-oil, so the shingle’s dried-out or oxidized asphalt oil is restored into a usable PG grade suitable for HMA – hot mix asphalt paving mix. The bio-oil’s osmotic reaction takes time and cannot be accomplished by using a softer grade for the entire HMA and/or dumping bio-oil or “other rejuvenators” into the hot mix production process and mixed for 30 seconds and then cooled during paving as many have tried.

Our resurrected asphalt shingles are formed into a pellet and coated with a durable shell organic blend to form a shell protecting the finished product, thereby allowing the bitumen time to revive into a usable asphalt paving oil.

The Perfect Pellet

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