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MethodsX
; 3: 399-406, 2016.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-27274458
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: â¢construction of the laboratory scale batch reactor,â¢separation of floating rCB from the zinc,â¢recovery of the steel from the bottom of the reactor following pyrolysis.