Bitumen Powder
Introduction of natural Bitumen
Gilsonite, Natural Bitumen is a generic name widely used for a black, lustrous, carbonaceous resin classified as an asphaltite. Its proper name is uintaite, and it is found in Utah, USA. An important characteristic of Natural Bitumen is its softening-point temperature. In oil-based muds, it is used as a fluid-loss control agent. Being a hydrocarbon, it is naturally wetted by the oil. In water-based muds, it is used as a shale-stabilizing additive and is difficult to evaluate unless tested at or above its softening point. As a hydrocarbon, the Bitumen powder must be coupled with water by using a glycol or similar water-wetter.
Natural Bitumen has the appearance of anthracite coal. Natural Bitumen is solidified oil. It’s an asphaltite, a naturally solid hydrocarbon, that is jet black in color, very lightweight, brittle, and has a conchoidal fracture. One of the largest “deposits” of Natural Bitumen in the world are in the western part of Iran. Until recently it wasn’t considered a coal, oil product, or asphalt. Now it is recognized as an asphalt.
Natural Bitumen is typically mixed with other petroleum products for wide-ranging industrial and commercial applications including printing ink, waterproofing primer, roofing asphalt, joint sealer, pond and ditch lining, fireworks, paints and varnishes, linoleum, oil and gas well cementing and drilling fluids, foundry sand molding, high-purity carbon electrodes, and more.
Bitumen powder in different mesh size.
Bitumen powder is available in different mesh size starting form 10/20 30/40 100 mesh 150 mesh and 200 mesh. Bitumen powder is producing according to order.
Packing of bitumen powder
Bitumen powder is dusty and black starting from course size to micronized size and could pack in 25Kg, 50Kg, and jumbo bag.
Bitumen powder usage.
It is using in inks & paint, oil well-drilling fluid, oil well cementing, mix with asphalt to increase the softening point, in the foundry and casting business to make the surface shiny. There is big usage in bitumen waterproofing material like bitumen membrane.
