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| Title |
Scrap tyre recycling process with molten zinc as direct heat transfer and solids separation fluid: A new reactor concept
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| Published in |
MethodsX, May 2016
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.mex.2016.05.003 |
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| Authors |
Frank Riedewald, Kieran Goode, Aidan Sexton, Maria J. Sousa-Gallagher |
| Abstract |
Every year about 1.5 billion tyres are discarded worldwide representing a large amount of solid waste, but also a largely untapped source of raw materials. The objective of the method was to prove the concept of a novel scrap tyre recycling process which uses molten zinc as the direct heat transfer fluid and, simultaneously, uses this media to separate the solids products (i.e. steel and rCB) in a sink-float separation at an operating temperature of 450-470 °C. This methodology involved: •construction of the laboratory scale batch reactor,•separation of floating rCB from the zinc,•recovery of the steel from the bottom of the reactor following pyrolysis. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 24 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 24 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 29% |
| Researcher | 5 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 3 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 13% |
| Unknown | 2 | 8% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Chemical Engineering | 6 | 25% |
| Engineering | 6 | 25% |
| Chemistry | 3 | 13% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 3 | 13% |
| Unknown | 4 | 17% |