Pyrolysis is simply a chemical reaction which involves heat and breaking down of larger molecules to smaller ones. Other names for pyrolysis include thermal cracking, thermolysis, cracking among other names. Pyrolysis plant recycles waste tires, and we can get industrial fuels like carbon black, hydrocarbon gas, steel wire and oil from the waste tyre. This therefore means that waste tires are still important since they can be used to come up with some useful products like the ones above.
What is Involved in the Pyrolysis Process?
To come up with the industrial final product from the waste tires, the tire is subjected to high temperature starting from 400 up to 450 degrees Celsius and at times the temperature can be raised even up to 900 degrees Celsius. This process occurs in the absence of oxygen to prevent the tire from burning. During the process, the tire is broken down into smaller molecules like carbon black, pyrolysis gas, oil and steel wire.
Advantages of Recycling Tires into Oil-Pyrolysis Plant
Recycling tyre oil machine is very advantageous first, because it protects the environment by converting waste tires to useful products. The used tires are sometimes referred to as black pollution’ because they can easily cause fire and their disposal has always been a big challenge to several societies. The pyrolysis plant therefore helps in finding a way of utilizing the used tires.
The plant is also equipped with safety devices and some of the most current dedusting system. This can atleast guarantee safety in the plant and at the same time energy is saved and the environment is kept protected all the times even during the pyrolysis process. This is because the released gas is pollution-free and can always be disposed to the air directly.
Application of the End Products
When the tyre to oil recycling process is over, the end products produced become very useful. They can be applied in the following ways.
First, the tire pyrolysis oil can be used in the industrial fuel materials. The oil can be used for burning and at the same time it can be further refined to produce diesel by oil distillation plant. The oil is also used in the production of electricity, steam and heat. Second, carbon black can either be used as fuel or in the construction of bricks. Lastly, the steel wire produced can either be used in processing or re-sale. This is how significant the pyrolysis process of recycling tires into oil has become to the society.
Impacts of Waste Tire to the Environment
The disposal of used tires and other solid wastes from human activity has posed a serious environmental problem more so in the developing countries. Used tires have proved to be very hazardous to the environment because they can burn at any time producing fumes that must always pollute the environment.