Grantee Research Project Results
Scrap Tire Pyrolysis -- Production of Highly Enhanced Marketable Products
EPA Contract Number: 68D30123Title: Scrap Tire Pyrolysis -- Production of Highly Enhanced Marketable Products
Investigators: Carrera, Martin E.
Small Business: HiChem Corporation
EPA Contact: Richards, April
Phase: I
Project Period: September 1, 1993 through March 1, 1994
Project Amount: $50,000
RFA: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) - Phase I (1993) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Hazardous Waste/Remediation , SBIR - Waste , Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
Description:
Research will be conducted by HiChem Corporation, to develop a new technology for pyrolysis of scrap tires. Disposal of used tires is a big problem in the world, especially USA, since more than 2.5 million tires are discarded each year. Most of these tires are disposed in landfills. Pyrolysis of scrap tires helps to recover and reuse most of the valuable chemical available in tires. Pyrolysis of scrap tires under inert atmospheres produces reusable gas, oil, and char. However, at present, these products have low market value because of their poor quality. Therefore, disposal of the tires by pyrolysis is marginally attractive as a business venture. The proposed research aims to prove that pyrolysis products produced by the HiChem process will produce reusable oil and char of higher quality. These products will be competitively marketable in the existing market with an advantage of low priced feedstock. The researchers also aim to show how to significantly shift the proportionality of the byproducts (carbon and oil) produced using the HiChem process to a higher quality and quantity product.Supplemental Keywords:
Scientific Discipline, Waste, Sustainable Industry/Business, Municipal, cleaner production/pollution prevention, Chemistry, Technology for Sustainable Environment, New/Innovative technologies, Engineering, scrap tires, tires, recovery, municipal waste, pyrolysis, carbon black, recovered materials, hazardous waste, recycling, waste recovery, innovative technology, reuse, innovative technologies, HiChem Process, pollution preventionProgress and Final Reports:
SBIR Phase II:
Rubber Tire Pyrolysis - Production of Highly Enhanced Marketable ProductsThe perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.