Waste to Energy opportunities - Carbonaceous Material
Gulzeb Rajput
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Waste tires (WT) rubber is non-biodegradable material, and tires manufacturing is rapidly increasing to meet the demand due to industrialization. The researchers have estimated that more than 17 million tons of WT are discarded each year. Thus, the massive increase in used WT is a challenging aspect in terms of disposal. It has been stated that more than 1.6 billion units of tires are produced every year on a global scale and it is estimated that 13.5 million tons of waste tires are scrapped every year. The overall estimation for synthetic and natural rubber (NR) is 28.75 million metric tons and almost 60% is used in the production of tires. Hence, the massive increase in used WT is a challenging aspect in terms of disposal.
Currently, the carbonaceous waste material (mainly polymeric waste) is the world’s largest available energy resource that can be utilized to produce valued energy products through thermochemical conversion. And considering the degradation (thermal) nature of waste tires, the pyrolysis of WT is regarded as one of the most prominent technology to reduce waste volume as well as production of fuel and biofuel in different forms.
However, waste tyres pyrolysis is considered as the most promising alternative process and waste management strategy in terms of large scale implementation. Several studies have recommended this technique as compared to other thermochemical processes due to the recovery of valued energy by-products including liquid fuel and solid material.
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The primary and secondary valuable products derived from the pyrolysis of WT are char and pyrolysis gas. Whereas, the pyrolysis liquid is the major WT product which can be handled, transported and utilized far from recycling plant. In addition, the other merit of WT pyrolysis process is low emission of pollutants as compared to incineration, which also increases the market value in terms of cost affordability of fuel along with low environmental impacts regarding waste tyres disposal.
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Dear Gulzeb you have highlighted one of the burning issue. I appreciate your critical thinking, technical skills, research skills and pointing out high alarming issues that pollute the environment. It is a fact that, use of tyres is growing everyday. Tyres are affecting our environment and the most difficult problem is how to discard them. However, world is changing towards the electric vehicles but the issue of waste tires will remain for longer period of time. You have find one the best solution for discarding of waste tyres. But still, a huge space is left for researcher's to make more sustainable, environment friendly and easily degradable tyres that should be very easy to discard. Moreover, It is also a worth pondering question for the researchers that, what shoud we use instead of rubber in making tyres, that should be more suitable, sustainable and environment friendly then rubber.