Firestone Tire Rubber Company

Generally, most pyrolysis systems have produced similar yields. Thus, it is important that any successful pyrolysis plant make provisions for selling the byproducts, especially the char. 

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Antkowiak TA (1977) The Firestone Tire Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, available NTIS, AD A047 960, US Army Mobility Equipment Research and Development Command, Contract DAAK-70-76-C-0239, October, Chem Abstr 88,171465b (1978)... 

The Firestone Tire Rubber Company, Central Research Laboratories, Akron, OH 44317... 

Hoechst Corporation, Ashland Chemical Company, Cabot Corporation, Dow Chemical U.S.A., Dunlop Research Centre, E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company, The Firestone Tire Rubber Company, The General Tire Rubber Company, The BF Goodrich Company, The Goodyear Tire Rubber Company, Monsanto Company, Polysar Limited, Shell Development Company, 3M Chemicals Division, and Uniroyal Chemical Division. 

The author wishes to thank Dr. A. F. Halasa for his inspiration. We are especially grateful to the Firestone Tire Rubber Company for permission to publish this paper. 

Firestone Tire Rubber Company performed a major cooperative research program with the U.S. Bureau of Mines in the early 1970s. They developed a 10 tire per day laboratory pyrolysis unit. In their studies they determined average yields of pyrolysis products per tire as follows 1 gallon oil, 7 pounds char, 3 pounds gas (57 scf), and 2 pounds steel and ash. Generally, most pyrolysis systems have produced similar yields. 

Central Research Laboratories The Firestone Tire Rubber Company Akron, Ohio... 

The pioneering work that led to alkyllithium-initiated diene elastomers was conducted at The Firestone Tire Rubber Company during the 1950s, and this technology was first carried into large-scale commercial practice by Firestone. Subsequently, it has also been commercialized by the Phillips Petroleum Company, Shell Oil Company, and various licensees of the three companies. 

Independent investigations were conducted on the same substrates (polybutadiene and polyisoprene) in the United States by a group at the Central Research Laboratories of the Firestone Tire Rubber Company... 

Lawson, D.F. Kay, E.L. Flame and smoke retardants for polyvinyl chloride. PCT US Patent 3,957,723, assigned to The Firestone Tire Rubber Company, 1976. 

Mn = 219,000 Mw/Mn = 1.08) and Polymer B (90.1% 1,2, 3.9% cis-1.4 and 6.0% trans-1,4 double bonds Mn = 270,000 Mw/Mn = 1.1), both kindly supplied by Dr. A. F. Halasa and Mr. J. E. Hall, The Firestone Tire Rubber Company, Akron, OH and Polymer C (86.0% 1,2, 14% trans-1,4 double bonds Mn <200,000 Mw/Mn A 2.0, with structure and molecular weight similar to those of von Raven and Heusinger s Polymer 6 ( 1)), obtained from Institut Franjais du P6trole, Solaize, France. Most of the work was performed with Polymer A, while Polymers B and C served to bridge the gap between Polymer A and Polymer 6. The VB samples were purified by reprecipitation from benzene solution with methanol as precipitant. 

Butadiene Polymers in EPST 1st ed., Vol. 2, pp. 678-754, by W. M. Saltman, The Goodyear Tire Rubber Company Butadiene Polymers in EPSE 2nd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 537-590, by David P. Tate and T. W. Bethea, Firestone Tire Rubber Company. 

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