Behaviour of asphalt based solids under water: modelling of leaching. Transfer phenomenology

This work deals with the theoretical study of the asphalt based solids leaching. A unified descriptive model has been developed in order to take advantage of the available knowledge and to propose an evolution of the model to leaching conditions the most general possible (series of free swelling phases and of forced swelling phases). The proposed approach consists to answer analytically and numerically the model for two limit cases (free swelling and initially forced), in order to reveal the influence parameters and to explain why it is expected that the phenomenologies differ. (O.M.)