WASTE TIRES AS RAW MATERIAL FOR PRODUCING ALTERNATIVE LIQUID
FUEL
R. JOONAS
V. YEFIMOV
I. PULEMYOTOV
S. DOILOV
Oil Shale Research Institute
Kohtla-Järve, Estonia
| The present work examines the possibilities and expediency of processing waste tires in vertical retorts widely used in the Estonian oil shale industry. Laboratory experiments of thermal decomposition of shredded tire chips were carried out in the Fischer retort and in a larger batch-operated laboratory still with external heating. Scrap rubber as raw material for producing oil possesses essential advantages over oil shale - kukersite: scrap-rubber does not bituminize during thermal processing, no slag is formed, heat consumption of the process is relatively low, etc. |