Many asphalt contractors don’t see bitumen as anything more than the sticky binder that keeps their aggregates together. However, companies are finding new ways to stretch the use of this relatively ...

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Bio-bitumen is a bio-based asphalt binding obtainable through renewable biomass materials such as agricultural waste, plant oils, lignin, algae or even animal manure and is an environmentally friendly ...

(Reuters) - The oil sands region of northern Alberta is the world's second-largest crude reserve, containing more than 170 billion barrels of recoverable bitumen, an extra-heavy form of oil that ...

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Finished carbon fibers derived from bitumen. Photo Credit, all images: UBC Applied Science/Paul Joseph A new process developed at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Canada) has the potential to ...

UBC materials engineer Dr. Yasmine Abdin and her colleagues, Dr. Frank Ko in the faculty of applied science and Dr. Scott Renneckar in the faculty of forestry, have developed a way to convert bitumen ...