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Pyrolysis of Crumb Tire Rubber Obtained from Waste Largesized Tires of Trucks

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Pyrolysis of various fractions of crumb rubber (with particle sizes of 0–1, 1–3, 2–3.5, and 2–4 mm) obtained from the waste largesized tires was studied in the temperature range of 550–700°C and at atmospheric pressure. It is shown that in the temperature range under study, the particle size of crumb tire rubber has only an insignificant effect on the distribution of its pyrolysis products, which consist of pyrolysis gas, pyrolysis liquid, and solid carbon residue. Pyrolysis gas is a mixture of predominantly light hydrocarbons of composition C1–C4 and hydrogen, the concentration of which increases with a rise in the heat treatment temperature; pyrolysis gas can be utilized as a fuel of the high heating value (HHV), and can also serve as a raw material for hydrogen production. The pyrolysis liquid is a mixture of alicyclic, aromatic, and linear hydrocarbons of С8–С17 composition with a rather high content of value-added products, such as limonene (up to ~35.5 wt %) and cymene (up to ~14.5 wt %); after their separation, the pyrolysis liquid can be used as heating oil or as a raw material for the production of motor fuels and valuable chemical compounds. The solid carbon residue has a relatively developed mesoporous structure (with a predominant pore size in the range of ~200–400 Å) and can be used as a raw material for the production of carbon sorbents.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors express their gratitude to the staff of the Kemerovo Regional Center for Collective Use of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (KemTsKP FRC UUH SB RAS) for technical assistance in analyzing the structure and composition of samples of waste rubber products, as well as their heat treatment products.

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The work was supported financially by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in accordance with an additional agreement on the provision of a subsidy from the Federal budget for financial support to implement the state task on the provision of public services (internal no. 075-GZ/X4141/687/3).

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    S. S. Azikhanov, K. Yu. Ushakov, V. Z. Gorina & A. R. Bogomolov

  2. The Federal Research Center of Coal and Coal Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 650000, Kemerovo, Russia

    I. Ya. Petrov

  3. Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia

    A. R. Bogomolov

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S.S. Azikhanov: problem statement, research planning, pyrolysis experiments; I.Ya. Petrov: interpretation of the data of FTIR spectroscopy and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; K.Yu. Ushakov: experiments on pyrolysis, analysis of gaseous products and determination of the heating value of raw materials and pyrolysis products; V.Z. Gorina: technical analysis of raw materials, fractional composition of liquid pyrolysis products, collection of literature data and literature review; A.R. Bogomolov: interpretation of electron microscopy data and adsorption measurements.

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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Khimii, No. 6, pp. 787–802, July, 2022 https://doi.org/10.31857/S0044461822060123

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Azikhanov, S.S., Petrov, I.Y., Ushakov, K.Y. et al. Pyrolysis of Crumb Tire Rubber Obtained from Waste Largesized Tires of Trucks. Russ J Appl Chem 95, 872–886 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S107042722206012X

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