Road-Spray treatment using water extracts from withered leaf of oak was carried out during March 24th through April 10th in 1988. The samples of dust particles were collected at road edge from both zones on Road-Spray treatment and non-treatment. The objective of this research was to evaluate the Road-Spray treatment for removing heavy oil in road-dust orignated from asphalt. The heavy oil contents in road-dust samples were determind by three methods, i. e., IR-and UV-absorption spectrum and absorbancy at 370nm.
The heavy oil concentrations were lower for treated samples than that for non-treatment samples on all of particle size.
This trend was remarkably observed in the fractions below 105μm. That is, the heavy oil concentrations including three methods ranged from 0.13 to 8.86% for treatment samples, and from 0.26 to 11.22% for non-treatment.
Additionally, the removal values of liquid paraffin in contact with road-dust samples were determind by decreased rate of IR-absorption peak around wave numbers, i. e., 2920, 2850, 1460 and 1380cm
-1, respectively.
Sum of removal values by four different wave numbers ranged from 39.1 to 44.0% for treated samples, and from 12.7 to 33.9% for non-treatment.
When compared with the removal of 2920cm
-1 signal peculiar to B heavy oil, the values of treated samples was from 2.2 to 22.3 times greater than that for non-treatment in <105μm fractions.
These results suggest that Road-Spray treatment with extracts from withered leaf has marked effect on the degradation of asphalt oil in road-dust.
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