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Mechanochemical Upcycling of Waste Polypropylene into Warm-Mix Modifier for Asphalt Pavement Incorporating Recycled Concrete Aggregates
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Jingxuan Hu
Jingxuan Hu 1,2,
Xueliang Jiang
Xueliang Jiang 1,*,
Yaming Chu
Yaming Chu 3,*,
Song Xu
Song Xu 4 and
Xiong Xu
Xiong Xu 5,6
1
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, China
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School of Chemical and Materials Engineering, College of Post and Telecommunication of WIT, Wuhan 430073, China
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School of Transportation and Logistics Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430063, China
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College of Civil Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China
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Hubei Provincial Engineering Research Center for Green Civil Engineering Materials and Structures, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430073, China
6
School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430073, China
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Polymers 2024, 16(17), 2494; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16172494 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 23 July 2024
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Revised: 27 August 2024
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Accepted: 29 August 2024
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Published: 31 August 2024
Abstract
To solve the problems on resource utilization and environmental pollution of waste concrete and waste polypropylene (PP) plastics, the recycling of them into asphalt pavement is a feasible approach. Considering the high melting temperature of waste PP, this study adopted a thermal-and-mechanochemical method to convert waste PP into high-performance warm-mix asphalt modifiers (PPMs) through the hybrid use of dicumyl peroxide (DCP), maleic anhydride (MAH), and epoxidized soybean oil (ESO) for preparing an asphalt mixture (RCAAM) containing recycled concrete aggregate (RCA). For the prepared RCAAM containing PPMs, the mixing temperature was about 30 °C lower than that of the hot-mix RCAAM containing untreated PP. Further, the high-temperature property, low-temperature crack resistance, moisture-induced damage resistance, and fatigue resistance of the RCAAM were characterized. The results indicated that the maximum flexural strain of the RCAAM increased by 7.8~21.4% after using PPMs, while the sectional fractures of the asphalt binder were reduced after damaging at low temperature. The use of ESO in PPMs can promote the cohesion enhancement of the asphalt binder and also improve the high-temperature deformation resistance and fatigue performance of the RCAAM. Notably, the warm-mix epoxidized PPMA mixture worked better close to the hot-mix untreated PPMA mixture, even after the mixing temperature was reduced by 30 °C.
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Hu, J.; Jiang, X.; Chu, Y.; Xu, S.; Xu, X.
Mechanochemical Upcycling of Waste Polypropylene into Warm-Mix Modifier for Asphalt Pavement Incorporating Recycled Concrete Aggregates. Polymers 2024, 16, 2494.
https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16172494
AMA Style
Hu J, Jiang X, Chu Y, Xu S, Xu X.
Mechanochemical Upcycling of Waste Polypropylene into Warm-Mix Modifier for Asphalt Pavement Incorporating Recycled Concrete Aggregates. Polymers. 2024; 16(17):2494.
https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16172494
Chicago/Turabian Style
Hu, Jingxuan, Xueliang Jiang, Yaming Chu, Song Xu, and Xiong Xu.
2024. "Mechanochemical Upcycling of Waste Polypropylene into Warm-Mix Modifier for Asphalt Pavement Incorporating Recycled Concrete Aggregates" Polymers 16, no. 17: 2494.
https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16172494
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