Basic Info.

Product Description

This equipment is used to determine and check bitumen percentage in bituminous mix. it is used for a quantitative determination of bitumen in hot-mixed paving mixtures and pavement samples. salient features:

• the apparatus consists of a removable cast aluminium rotor bowl of capacity 1500 g, mounted on a vertical shaft.
  
• there is a filter paper disc, pressed in between the rotor bowl and cover plate by a knurled nut.
  
• the bowl assembly is enclosed in a housing mounted on a cast aluminium body.
  
• the bowl and shaft are rotated fast manually by enclosed gears in the cast body and handle.
  
• the gears operate in oil bath with splash lubrication.
  
• solvent is introduced during the test through the holes in the cap of the housing.
  
• a drain is provided to collect dissolved bitumen coming out of the rotating bowl and getting collected in the housing.