The efficient recovery of bitumen, a highly viscous form of crude oil, poses significant technical and economic challenges. In recent years, researchers have developed advanced experimental techniques ...

VG grades are known by the Indian government as the preferred type of bitumen for road construction. In 1991, the Bureau of Indian Standards adopted a new grading method for bitumen, named viscosity ...

Greenvale Mining Ltd. (AU:GRV) has released an update. Greenvale Mining Ltd. has reported positive results from its Liquefaction Test Program 5 at the Alpha Torbanite Project, showing potential for ...

Greenvale Energy is on the path towards a commercial bitumen product after testwork at the Alpha project in Queensland recorded the highest conversion to date. GRV’s latest testwork shows company ...

BRISTOL, RI--(Marketwire - Dec 4, 2012) - Westfall Manufacturing Company has introduced a static mixer for bitumen processing that mixes multiple diluents to the correct viscosity and density, ...

Solvents are used to increase production and reduce steam-to-oil ratio in steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). Variations of SAGD that use solvents, such as expanding solvent (ES) SAGD or ...

It can be termed as the building block of the pavements without which all the pavement materials would behave independently and thus will be deemed useless. Almost ninety percent of bitumen is used in ...

The two main problems that occur in asphalt concrete (tarmac) surfaces are that wheel ruts are formed when the material is too soft, or that the surface cracks when too hard. Climate Considerations In ...