The advantageous embodiments of the invention have the characteristics of the subclaims.
The contact between the air and the bitumen is carried out in the invention by using high turbulence. The reactor used in the invention generates turbulence by using mixing devices of rotor-stator type that generate the shear forces: the bitumen and the air are forced through the reactor in such a way that strong shear forces and much mixing is directed to those with a good dispersion of the air as a result that is very advantageous for the contact. In the preparation method of the invention, the reactor used to improve the contact of the air-bitumen mixture, the so-called rotating apparatus, is a so-called power homogenizer, which is a mixing device of the type wherein the mixing is achieved ¦ by one or more rotor-stator pairs, alone or in series.
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