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Soybean Oil-Derived Additives Evaluated for Use in Bio-cutback and Bio-fog Seal Treatment

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Pavement preservation treatments applied before significant deterioration and cracking has occurred can extend the service life of a pavement and reduce future maintenance costs. Rejuvenating materials can help to increase the performance of these preservation treatments. Soybean derived additives have been found to greatly reduce the stiffness of aged and brittle asphalt binders. This study proposes the use of these bio-based additives to be used in a fog seal emulsion and as a bio-cutback treatment. The use of functionalized soybean oil in asphalt pavement treatments can greatly reduce the environmental concerns related to other petroleum-derived materials while providing an economical benefit to local agriculture economy. A small field study was conducted to measure the effectiveness of these biomaterials. No significant effect was observed in the extracted asphalt properties, or the low-temperature fracture energy measured by disk-shaped compact tension test (DCT); however, a decrease in the dynamic modulus at higher frequencies and a large decrease in permeability was observed. The treatments were successful in sealing the asphalt pavement, but a higher application rate is needed to show more significant differences in the rheology.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Jon Arjes at the Iowa DOT for performing the Hamburg wheel tracking test on the cored specimens, and Paul Ledtje and Ali Arabzadeh for assisting in the coring operations.

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This work was supported by United Soybean Board (USB) project 2140–362-0715. USB was not involved in the experiments or writing of this manuscript.

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  1. Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, 174 Town Engineering, 813 Bissell Rd, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Maxwell Staver & Joseph Podolsky

  2. Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, 486 Town Engineering, 813 Bissell Rd, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    R. Christopher Williams

  3. Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, 137 Town Engineering, 813 Bissell Rd, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Theodore Huisman

  4. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, 3127, Sweeney Hall, 618 Bissell Rd, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Austin Hohmann

  5. Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, 490 Town Engineering, 813 Bissell Rd, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Ashley Buss

  6. Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University, 394 Town Engineering, 813 Bissell Rd, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Irvin Pinto

  7. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, 3133, Sweeney Hall, 618 Bissell Rd, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Eric Cochran

  8. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, 3125 Sweeney Hall, 618 Bissell Rd, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Michael Forrester

  9. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, 3127 Sweeney Hall, 618 Bissell Rd, Ames, IA, 50011, USA

    Nacu Hernandez

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MS: conceptualization, methodology, writing—original draft, data curation, formal analysis. JP: writing—review and editing. RCW: supervision, funding acquisition. TH: conceptualization, methodology. AH: resources. AB: supervision. IP: resources. EC: supervision, writing—review and editing, funding acquisition. MF: resources. NH: writing—review and editing.

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Staver, M., Podolsky, J., Williams, R.C. et al. Soybean Oil-Derived Additives Evaluated for Use in Bio-cutback and Bio-fog Seal Treatment. Int. J. Pavement Res. Technol. 16, 1327–1338 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42947-022-00199-2

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