This invention relates to a
sophorolipid-modified recycled aggregate,
phase change concrete, and their preparation method, belonging to the field of building materials technology. The preparation method of the
sophorolipid-modified recycled aggregate includes: immersing the recycled aggregate in an
oxalic acid solution and rinsing it, then immersing it in an
acetic acid solution and rinsing to obtain
oxalic acid-modified recycled aggregate; mixing and stirring it with a
sophorolipid solution to obtain recycled aggregate adsorbed with sophorolipids; preheating the sophorolipid-adsorbed recycled aggregate and mixing it with
liquid paraffin, vacuum impregnating it to remove free paraffin, and cooling to obtain the sophorolipid-modified recycled aggregate. The
oxalic acid solution can peel off the old
mortar from the surface of the recycled aggregate, exposing the hydrophilic sites of hydroxyl groups; sophorolipids connect the hydroxyl groups of the aggregate and the
alkane chains of the paraffin; the vacuum impregnation method increases the paraffin loading and reduces the paraffin
leakage rate. This solves the technical bottlenecks of numerous surface defects in recycled aggregates, incompatibility between paraffin and aggregate interfaces, and the difficulty in simultaneously achieving the mechanical properties and
phase change properties of concrete.