This paper presents the process of steam thermolysis of shredded used tires for obtaining from them liquid fuel and technical carbon carried out in a screw reactor with heating due to the partial burning of obtained fuel and burning of the tail combustible gas. The features and advantages of using steam for safety and stability of the process, including the problem of secondary waste slime processing, have been considered. The specific fuel consumption and the steam generation per 1 kg of processed tires and, separately, the gas consumption for power supply (heating) of the process without using fuel, as well as with additional burning of fuel for processing slime together with tires, have been considered.
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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 82, No. 2, pp. 242–251, March–April, 2009.
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Kalitko, V.A., Chun Yao Wu, M., Zhdanok, V.A. et al. Steam thermolysis of discarded tires: testing and analysis of the specific fuel consumption with tail gas burning, steam generation, and secondary waste slime processing. J Eng Phys Thermophy 82, 236–245 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-009-0198-5
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