Small Package Steam Generators

The Oregon installation uses a 25 tire per hour unit manufactured by Nippo in Japan and marketed in the U.S. by Tsurusaki Sealand. The unit has been in operation since 1987 with moderate success, but no U.S. company has yet decided to purchase another one. The draft configuration in the unit allows it to bum at 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit and produce 100 psig process steam. The unit has a Cleaver Brooks waste heat recovery boiler and a bag filter. Whole tires are automatically fed into the unit-both automobile tires and light truck tires. The State of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has approved the operation of the unit. 

To summarize the combustion alternative, various combustion installations throughout the country appear to be increasing their consumption of waste tires. 

The largest tire combustion facility in the world is now beginning construction-the Oxford Energy power plant at Sterling Connecticut, which will burn 9-10 million tires per year. When it is completed, it will bring the total of tires annually combusted for fuel to approximately 30 million. 

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Tire Manufacturing Plants Cement Kilns Pulp and Paper Plants Small Package Steam Generators. 

At Les Schwab Tires in Oregon, the small package steam generator uses 25 tires per hour. It has been in operation... 

Tire manufacturing plants Cement kilns Pulp and paper plants Small package steam generators... 

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