Used or waste tires are a big ecological problem. Due to vulcanization, they are extremely difficult to recycle. Most are thus doomed to rot in landfills, but thanks to Green Distillation Technologies (GDT), they have a brighter future ahead of them. There have been many ideas for recycling tires, but probably none better than this startup that wants to use them to make fuel.
Fuel from waste tires is the brainchild of an Australian company Green Distillation Technologies. He comes to him with chemical processing tires. It uses a special processing method with which tires break down into oil, carbon and steel (it is a process similar to pyrolysis, i.e. the process of decomposition of substances at high temperatures). There is no need to pre-send to the tires for the process incision, so is this one without any discharges. Up to four liters can be obtained from one tire oil and just as much carbon and one and a half kilograms steel.
From truck tires we get a lot more, up to a point 28 liters of oil and 11 kilograms of steel and 28 kilograms of carbon. They can squeeze up to three thousand liters of fuel from a seven-ton tire, which can be mixed with diesel. Research has shown that in this case diesel emissions are reduced by 30 percent, the engine performance remains the same, and the addition of waste tires does not otherwise negatively affect the vehicle. This type of fuel can also be used for fuel or to process it into higher octane fuels. There are no waste parts during processing, as it is processed the entire tire.
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Green Distillation Technologies is said to annually process around 685 thousand tires, which is just three percent of what Australians throw away annually. It ends up in landfills every year 48 million car tires. So they will not run out of material.
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