Waste tyres utilization

Collins KJ, Jensen AC, Albert S (1995) A review of waste tyre utilization in the marine environment. Chemistry and Ecology 10 205-216... 

Whole waste tyres can be utilized for many practical purposes including crash barriers for both... 

The relatively large heating value of tyres makes the use of TDF or whole tyres for combustion in utilities, industry, and manufacturing the most promising method for waste tyre management. 

A promising and relatively new way to utilize both whole and processed old tyres (Fig. 1) is to recover the energy contained in this waste material. As an energy source, tyres represent an attractive alternative to other fuels due to their high heating value. On average, the... 

A new version of MCFC technology - the direct carbon fuel cell (DCFC) - is under development at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the USA. Instead of using gaseous fuel, a slurry of finely divided carbon particles dispersed in molten alkali metal carbonates is fed to the cell. The carbon is made by the pyrolysis of almost any waste hydrocarbon e.g., petroleum coke), a process that is already carried out industrially on a large scale to produce carbon black for use in the manufacture of tyres, inks, plastic fillers, etc. The pyrolysis reaction yields hydrogen that can itself be utilized in another fuel cell ... 

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