3 - Global bitumen market, main uses and development

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Mastering bitumen for better roads and innovative applications

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École des Ponts ParisTech

Mastering bitumen for better roads and innovative applications

99 個評分

During the four coming weeks, best experts in bitumen will bring you their knowledge and experience to build a strong understanding of today’s realities and new perspectives on the future of bitumen. Total is the European leader on bitumen markets. Innovation has always been the key to sustainability and durability in the products they develop. Their main objective here is to share technical knowledge and experience to insure bitumen are being used in the most effective and efficient ways for their different applications in road works. Ecole des Ponts, France oldest engineering school, remains very much in the present, as it has always been, in training engineers in order to meet the needs of our society and citizens in key areas such as transport housing and urban services, but also in fields like energy, environment, climate sciences, land-use planning and sustainable development. Nineteen world recognized experts on bitumen are contributing to this MOOC. The idea is to provide the broadest prism on this topic area with speakers coming from research, industry and end users.

從本節課中

Bitumen market, generalities, the manufacture of bitumen, transport, uses of bitumen, main developments and alternatives

Origins, history, definition, terminology | market per geographical areas, figures of consumption, main producers, capacities of production, ranking, main flows between areas | global development of motorised transport - cars, airplane - was one of the single most development of 20-21st centuries | global development of buidings, roofing and other applications of bitumen | difference between bitumen, cement and tar coal. Advantages and drawback of each | different ways of transport of bitumen and present the supply chain diagram and restrictions. ADR Regulation | sampling, handling and safety principles. Hazard from handling hot bitumen is thermal burns.

1- Bitumen: Origins, history, definition, terminology6:50

2 - Bitumen manufacturing process5:54

3 - Global bitumen market, main uses and development7:19

4 - Application in roads: global view7:43

5 - Interview of a toll motorway manager. Final customer expectations.5:41

6 - Industrial application: global view8:36

7 - Difference between bitumen, cement and coal tar6:33

8 - Transport of bitumen - ADR Regulation-8:12

9 - Sampling, handling and safety principles-4:26

與講師見面

Eric GOSSE
Vice Président
TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
Armel de la BOURDONNAYE
Directeur
ECOLE DES PONTS PARISTECH
Sophie LIMBORG
Mission Head
TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
Mike SOUTHERN
Director
Bituconsult LTD
Clémence QUEFFELEC
Assistant professor
CEISAM laboratory, University of Nantes, France
Gilles GAUTHIER
Technical and Product development manager
TOTAL BITUMEN
Olivier GAMET
Production Pilot
Supply department / TOTAL
John D'ANGELO
Chief Operating Officer
D’Angelo Consulting, LLC.
Gary SCHOFIELD
Technical Manager
Total Bitumen (UK)
Nicolas HAUTIERE
Project Director
IFSTTAR / COSYS Department
Frédéric ANDRZEJEWSKI
Expert bitumen industrial roofing activity
Jean Pascla PLANCHE
Vice President
Asphalt and Petroleum Technologies / Western Research Institute
Virginie MOUILLET
PhD, Senior Researcher, deputy head of chemical Unit
Regional Laboratory of Aix-en-Provence / Cerema Méditerranée
Hélène AZOULAY
Deputy Managing Director
PFC/Ecole des Ponts
Nadège VO VINH
Bitumen Shipping Manager
Supply International Bitumen / TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES
Cécile GIACOBI
Pavement expert
Vinci Autoroutes
Laurence LAPALU
Bitumen Group Manager
TOTAL MARKETING SERVICES - Research Division
Yves BROSSEAUD
senior researcher - road materials expert - materials and Structures Department
IFSTTAR - Nantes - France
Emmanuel CHAILLEUX
Research Director
IFSTTAR
Jean-François CORTE
Member of the Council of Environment and Sustainable Development
French Ministry of Environment, Energy and Sea

Hello, I'm Eric Gosse.

I am the Vice-President Bitumen for TOTAL.

I'm in charge of the Bitumen business of TOTAL.

So you have started to familiarize yourself with bitumen,

the history, the definition but also the manufacturing process.

This video will give you some insight into the markets of bitumen.

We will explore the various continents.

And see how the market are organized,

we will also see the main usages of the bitumen, how it is used.

Let's get the global picture first.

100 million ton, that is a first key figure.

That's equivalent to 2 million barrels per day.

If you are more familiar with this scent.

It is the approximate amount of bitumen that is produced or

consumed on a yearly basis across the whole world.

And Asia Pacific is the leading region with around one third of the global consumption.

China itself is over 20 million tons.

North America used to be the biggest market.

It's now around 23 million tons.

Middle East is around 10 million.

Russia and neighboring states, seven.

Latin America, seven.

Last, the smallest is Africa with 2 million tons of production.

And around four million tons of demand.

Europe is around 15 million tons of demand and 17 million tons of production.

Markets are regional.

It is key to understand that bitumen is not a product with a high value.

And it is usually transported in bulk at a temperature of 160 180 degrees Celsius.

Therefore, the cost of transport is

quickly a high percentage of the total cost of the product.

As a result, markets are structured

mainly around the point of production, the refineries in Europe for instance.

There the original production meets the local demand.

Yet as you may have noticed some imbalances

persist between supplying the original demand.

For instance continental production of Bitumen in Africa is around 2 million tons,

yet demand pitches at 4, withe the opposite in Europe.

Africa is said to be a "short market".

Europe to be a "long market".

The same could be said between China and Korea.

China, these last years, has not produced enough bitumen for its market, and

Korea has over-produced.

So, trading between the short zones and the long zones is starting to happen.

We estimate that around 15%

of the bitumen moves from one place to another.

This transport requires specialized dedicated vessels.

You will have a session on the topic of transport.

Yet, as we mentioned, transport costs accounts for

a significant part of the cost of bitumen.

If you were to look today at specialized newspaper on this topic,

you would find significant price differences between markets.

For instance, as of the end of October 2015,

you would've have found the price of $250 per ton in Europe,

$400 per ton in North America or East China,

$350 per ton in west of South Africa.

The dynamic on the market is the following: as demand

pents up or as supply reduces, regional market prices go up,

up to the point where market participants find it attractive to import bitumen and

commit themselves to invest in such facilities.

The opposite is also true,

when demand goes down,

or supply becomes too abundant,

regional market prices go down,

to the point where local producers find it attractive to produce or

alternatively find it attractive to export from their regional market.

So, now that we know where bitumen is produced and

how market are structured, we are getting into what the bitumen is used for.

Yet, let's not forget that bitumen bases can also be a feedstock for

other processes or products supplying significant markets.

You have come along this in a specialised session on the manufacturing process.

As you may have guessed, road construction is the main outlet for

bitumen, where it can be used in one way or another.

Yet as a whole it accounts for around 90% of bitumen consumption.

Bitumen can be used as such,

it's the so-called "paving grade" bitumen.

It's then mixed with aggregate to produce asphalt mix in dedicated plants.

Grades of Bitumen vary according to countries

and so have to meet different specifications.

(European specifications, superpave in the US.

You will learn about these later).

They also vary according to the type of road to be built,

the traffic it has to bear amongst other things.

Bitumen can also be used in combination with other components

to manufacture "bituminous binders", be it water and additives for emulsions,

crumrubber for CRMB or polymers for PMB.

They have then different and sometimes enhanced properties compared to the paving grade.

You will learn later on all these applications of bitumen

in forthcoming videos.

Lastly, I'd like to mention the other usages of bitumen for the remaining 10%.

We usually refer to them as industrial usages of bitumen.

Bitumen is a very good waterproofing material, and

it has been used as such for ages.

It is no surprise that you find here one of the main usages

outside of the road construction

for example, in waterproofing membranes or in shingles.

Bitumen is also an excellent glue.

A road is nothing different from gravel that is glued together by bitumen.

So bitumen is also used in the construction industry, for instance

to glue insulating cellular glass materials on the wall or on the roof.

So, the key learning points of this session are: - markets structured

regionally around the production points. Markets are generally balanced.

- worldwide production is around 100 million tons.

90% of that production goes into road construction in different forms

of bitumen, either as paving grade or as bituminous binders.

Thank you very much for your attention.

I hope you've found this session interesting.

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