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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 2589223" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>Your correct. Binders being the key.</p><p></p><p>Our asphalt company in town has a couple of towers. I'm assuming they are fractionating towers that produce a petroleum pitch. That would give the black road, and inferior wear factor that comes with it.</p><p></p><p>Bitumen is also sometimes confused with petroleum pitch which, although also derived from crude oil, is a substance produced by a different process from that used for refined bitumen. Petroleum pitches are the residues from the extreme heat treatment or cracking of petroleum fractions. Their properties and chemical composition are therefore quite different from those of bitumen.</p><p></p><p>I'm also assuming Oklahoma is using the Petroleum pitch vs road construction material using Bitumen that our neighbors do on their roads.</p><p></p><p>Somewhere in some regulation, rule, standard, this is why our roads suck.</p><p></p><p>The only way we can fix our roads, is to change the grade of asphalt that is currently used. </p><p></p><p>If it takes lobbying the legislature, we have to find the reg/rule that has put us in this position of the worst roads in the US.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 2589223, member: 5412"] Your correct. Binders being the key. Our asphalt company in town has a couple of towers. I'm assuming they are fractionating towers that produce a petroleum pitch. That would give the black road, and inferior wear factor that comes with it. Bitumen is also sometimes confused with petroleum pitch which, although also derived from crude oil, is a substance produced by a different process from that used for refined bitumen. Petroleum pitches are the residues from the extreme heat treatment or cracking of petroleum fractions. Their properties and chemical composition are therefore quite different from those of bitumen. I'm also assuming Oklahoma is using the Petroleum pitch vs road construction material using Bitumen that our neighbors do on their roads. Somewhere in some regulation, rule, standard, this is why our roads suck. The only way we can fix our roads, is to change the grade of asphalt that is currently used. If it takes lobbying the legislature, we have to find the reg/rule that has put us in this position of the worst roads in the US. [/QUOTE]
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