Fossil-fuel and rubber-derived waste stream conversion to composite lumber substitutes or barrier members; the composites having material properties and uses of greater value than the solid waste stream components separately or together. Preferred combinations including waste materials derived from waste carpet, waste tires, and waste bituminous roofing shingles, all enormous problems for landfill disposal. In a range of formulation ratios, when combined with a binder, new and marketable products are made from solid waste. Improved resistance to rot, to water, and to weathering is exhibited in synergy with improved compressive and flexural strength, enabling production of a wide variety of useful and environmentally-friendly structural products, for example. Product weight and strength can be engineered to suit and may be structural members for architectural, engineering or agricultural use. Advantageously, the new products themselves can be re-used—by an end-of-life process for making more new products, achieving the capacity to make and remake multigenerational products from solid wastes and to reduce loading of landfills.

Fossil-fuel and rubber-derived waste stream conversion to composite lumber substitutes or barrier members; the composites having material properties and uses of greater value than the solid waste stream components separately or together. Preferred combinations including waste materials derived from waste carpet, waste tires, and waste bituminous roofing shingles, all enormous problems for landfill disposal. In a range of formulation ratios, when combined with a binder, new and marketable products are made from solid waste. Improved resistance to rot, to water, and to weathering is exhibited in synergy with improved compressive and flexural strength, enabling production of a wide variety of useful and environmentally-friendly structural products, for example. Product weight and strength can be engineered to suit and may be structural members for architectural, engineering or agricultural use. Advantageously, the new products themselves can be re-usedby an end-of-life process for making more new products, achieving the capacity to make and remake multigenerational products from solid wastes and to reduce loading of landfills.

Fossil-fuel and rubber-derived waste stream conversion to composite lumber substitutes or barrier members; the composites having material properties and uses of greater value than the solid waste stream components separately or together. Preferred combinations including waste materials derived from waste carpet, waste tires, and waste bituminous roofing shingles, all enormous problems for landfill disposal. In a range of formulation ratios, when combined with a binder, new and marketable products are made from solid waste. Improved resistance to rot, to water, and to weathering is exhibited in synergy with improved compressive and flexural strength, enabling production of a wide variety of useful and environmentally-friendly structural products, for example. Product weight and strength can be engineered to suit and may be structural members for architectural, engineering or agricultural use. Advantageously, the new products themselves can be re-usedby an end-of-life process for making more new products, achieving the capacity to make and remake multigenerational products from solid wastes and to reduce loading of landfills.

An asphalt composition comprising aggregates and a binder material, wherein the binder material comprises humins, which humins comprise carbonaceous water-insoluble by-products of the dehydration of carbohydrates and/or 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and/or ethers or esters of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural. The invention also provides a binder material for use in asphalt compositions comprising from 1 to 95% wt, preferably from 5 to 60% wt of such humins, based on the weight of the binder material. The invention further provides for the use of such humins in the manufacture of binder material for asphalt compositions and the use of such humins as binder material in asphalt compositions.

A binder composition includes at least: a binder base selected among an oil, a bitumen base, a pitch, a clear binder or mixtures thereof; an acid compound of general formula (I): R(COOH).sub.z (I); an amide compound of general formula (II): R(NH).sub.nCONH(X).sub.m(NHCO).sub.p(NH).sub.nR (II), the compounds (I) and (II) being provided with a weight ratio of 10:1 to 1:16. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing coatings. The invention further relates to a method for transporting and/or storing and/or handling binder, in particular road binder, said binder being transported and/or stored and/or handled in the form of binder granules or binder cakes.

The asphalt composition of the present invention is an asphalt composition comprising 1% to 15% by mass of a block copolymer (a) and an asphalt (c), wherein the block copolymer (a) comprises a specific block copolymer (a-1) and a specific block copolymer (a-2) in specific amounts, wherein the content of a vinyl aromatic monomer unit in the block copolymer (a) is 34% by mass or more and 55% by mass or less, the number average molecular weight of the block copolymer (a-1) is in the range of 20,000 to 73,000, and the number average molecular weight of the block copolymer (a-2) is 1.5 to 5.0 times higher than the number average molecular weight of the block copolymer (a-1).

A method and an apparatus for processing and recovering bitumen (42) and aggregate (41) from asphalt (40), in which: a) the asphalt (40) is mechanically comminuted; b) the comminuted asphalt is introduced into an evacuated or evacuatable processing chamber (1); c) the processing chamber (1) is evacuated by adjusting the pressure in the processing chamber (1) to a pressure lower than ambient pressure, preferably 200 mbar or lower; d) the processing chamber (1) is then charged at least once with a liquid organic solvent; e) the liquid organic solvent is then extracted from the processing chamber (1); and then f1) the organic solvent is fed into the evacuated processing chamber (1) in the vapor phase at the reduced pressure, at a temperature at or above the flash point of the organic solvent; and/or f2) liquid organic solvent is fed into the treatment chamber (1).

Provided is a composite material including a blend of components. The blend includes phosphogypsum, bitumen and particulate matter. The phosphogypsum may be present in an amount of at least 10% w/w out of the total weight of said composite material. Also provided herein is a method of producing the composite material, by, at least, mixing phosphogypsum and particulate matter at a temperature above 150 C. for a time sufficient to receive an essentially dry particulate mixture in which the amount of the phosphogypsum is such to obtain a composite material having at least 10% w/w out of the total dry weight of said composite material. While mixing molten bitumen may be introduced into the essentially dry particulate mixture to obtain the composite material. Articles of manufacture including the composite material are also disclosed.

A composition that includes asphalt component; and graphite component.

A method for producing an asphaltic sheet having expandable graphite dispersed in one or more asphaltic components thereof, the method comprising: (i) preparing a masterbatch by combining asphalt binder and polymeric modifier at a first temperature; (ii) cooling the masterbatch to a second temperature, where the second temperature is lower than the first temperature; (iii) adding, after said step of cooling, expandable graphite to the masterbatch to thereby form an asphaltic composition including expandable graphite; and (iv) fabricating a sheet with the asphaltic composition including expandable graphite.