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Steam feed and effect of steam-thermal seal in thermolysis of tire shreds in a screw-type reactor

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On the basis of experience in commercial operation, the effect of steam seal in tire-shred pyrolysis in a screw-type reactor with superheated steam has been considered and analytically substantiated; there, local steam feed produces the above effect at the total reduced pressure and keeps air from entering the reactor without sluices or valves used for hermetization of its loading and unloading. It has been shown that the increase in the production rate of pyrolysis due to the heating by steam amounts to 10–15% and is limited by the diffusion transfer in the reactor’s charge bed.

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  1. A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 304–309, March–April, 2010.

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Kalitko, V.A. Steam feed and effect of steam-thermal seal in thermolysis of tire shreds in a screw-type reactor. J Eng Phys Thermophy 83, 324–329 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10891-010-0348-9

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