Tire technology components

Principally, we differentiate between immersion and spray cooling technology, depending on the type of tire components and the desired speed of the downstream line. 

The current technology is very cost-effective. If applied correcfly in line with other processes, such as extrusion or calendering, it can produce substantial savings by the reduction in material or the tire component s weight. The reduction of overall thickness can be as much as 20%. ... 

When assessing the Best Available Techniques (BAT) for the usage of different types of fuels, it was found that some waste fuels such as tires are considered a mature technology, but other solid waste have been only recently introduced as AF. Tires are the most geographically and widely used solid waste derived fuel they can be used in different forms such as entire, chipped, or shredded. The utilization of hres gives complete destruchon of the rubber and cotton, which are components of tires. The ultimate and proximate analyses of some AF are displayed in Table 31.9. 

The design of a tire with its several component materials yields its unique performance characteristics. It also makes the tire a particularly challenging product to recycle. The recycling infrastructure has developed technologies to grind tires and separate the materials in them. There are several markets for end-of-Ufe tires. Some ground tire rubber finds its way back into automotive parts such as splash shields and brake pedal pads. A list of scrap tire markets is given in Table 17.5 [12],... 

The reclamation of scrap metal from old cars also uses cryogenic technology—cooling to low temperatures permits easier fracturing and component separation. Car bodies can be pulverized at low temperatures with about one-tenth of the room-temperature energy requirement. Rubber tires and other scrap materials are similarly processed by cryogenic recovery techniques. 

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