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Evaluation of aging processes of petroleum asphalt cements by solid state electrochemical monitoring

Géssica Domingos Da SilveiraLeandro Machado De CarvalhoAntonio Doménech-carbóNoemí Montoya

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Materials scienceGeneral Chemical EngineeringSulfoxide02 engineering and technology010402 general chemistry021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyElectrochemistry01 natural sciences0104 chemical scienceschemistry.chemical_compoundchemistryChemical engineeringAsphaltElectrochemistryThiophenePolythiopheneThin film0210 nano-technologyVoltammetryOrganosulfur compounds

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Abstract The changes in the chemistry of organosulfur compounds from asphalt cements during aging are studied using solid state voltammetry of immobilized microparticles. Five Brazilian asphalt cements were evaluated after three forced aging processes: Rolling Thin Film Oven Test (RTFOT), Pressure Aging Vessel (PAV) and SUNTEST. It was possible to identify the presence of thiophenes, sulfides and sulfoxides in the different samples and the reactional changes during the aging processes were proposed. Voltammetric data, supported by ATR-FTIR spectroscopy, indicate that aging asphalts involve the increase of the proportion of sulfoxide and thiophene components and that polythiophene compounds were formed mainly in the SUNTEST aging due the involvement of radical species.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2018.02.039