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 ...

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 ...

KOCHI: Bharat Petroleum Corporation has launched viscosity grade bitumen and became the first oil marketing company to introduce the product in the country. The product was officially launched in ...

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 ...

Asphalt-rubber binders are being used successfully by a few states for SAMs and SAMIs. If the asphalt-rubber binder is a high-viscosity type, it typically is applied at the rate of about 0.6 gallon ...

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 ...

A measure of resistance to flow is the ultimate sticky question. In its natural state, oil sands high-viscosity bitumen is 1,000 times thicker than light crude. This is why it must be steam-heated ...