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In this experiment, at first, waste polyvinyl chloride was used as an additive in an attempt to improve the performance of bitumen and hot mix asphalt (HMA) in order to minimize the amount of rutting. To further these aims, conventional and rheological tests were conducted on bitumen and all HMA specimens were tested by Marshall stability, flow, and repeated load axial tests. After investigating rutting resistance of HMA samples, the results demonstrated that this waste material could improve the rheological properties of bitumen, and the HMA samples, manufactured by this particular type of bitumen, are more resistant to rutting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Asphaltene precipitation is introduced as a seriously problematic issue in the petroleum reservoirs that causes filling porosity of rocks and reduction of oil production. Hence, estimating the amount of precipitated asphaltene has huge importance in preventing the deposition of asphaltene. The present study was done to estimate the precipitated asphaltene as a function of temperature, dilution ratio, and molecular weight of different n-alkanes using adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS). Moreover, another new scaling model was also developed to compare with the ANFIS model. In addition, these two developed models have been compared with previously developed correlations. The obtained values of R2for the ANFIS and scaling models were 0.9912 and 0.9862, respectively. These tools are simple to use and can be used as an accurate approximation of the precipitated asphaltene as a function of temperature, dilution ratio, and molecular weight of different n-alkanes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]