	US 12,084,382 B2
	Oil-treated plastic for concrete
Marvin Burton, Glendale, AZ (US); Christian Hoover, Chandler, AZ (US); and Elham Fini, Phoenix, AZ (US)
Assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University, Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Filed by Marvin Burton, Glendale, AZ (US); Christian Hoover, Chandler, AZ (US); and Elham Fini, Phoenix, AZ (US)
Filed on Oct. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/496,614.
Application 18/496,614 is a continuation of application No. 17/484,834, filed on Sep. 24, 2021, granted, now 11,827,564.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/082,745, filed on Sep. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0059609 A1, Feb. 22, 2024
Int. Cl. B09B 3/00 (2022.01); B09B 3/21 (2022.01); B09B 3/40 (2022.01); C04B 18/30 (2006.01); C04B 20/10 (2006.01); C04B 28/02 (2006.01)

CPC C04B 18/30 (2013.01) [B09B 3/21 (2022.01); B09B 3/40 (2022.01); C04B 20/1025 (2013.01); C04B 28/02 (2013.01); Y02W 30/91 (2015.05)]

19 Claims

1. A method of forming concrete containing oil-treated plastic particles, the method comprising:

combining plastic particles with oil to yield a mixture;

heating the mixture to yield a heated mixture;

cooling the heated mixture to yield a cooled mixture;

removing excess oil from the cooled mixture to yield oil-treated plastic particles;

adding the oil-treated plastic particles to rocks, sand, and cement; and

binding the oil-treated plastic particles to calcium-silicate hydroxide in the cement to yield the concrete containing oil-treated plastic particles.