STEAM THERMOLYSIS OF DISCARDED TIRES: TESTING
AND ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIFIC FUEL CONSUMPTION
WITH TAIL GAS BURNING, STEAM GENERATION, 
AND SECONDARY WASTE SLIME PROCESSING

V. A. Kalitko,a Morgan Chun-Yao Wu,b
V. A. Zhdanok,a and Benson Tsai Ching Yub
 
UDC 536.246.2

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.

Keywords: waste, tires, processing, pyrolysis, fuel, 
carbon, steam, slime.
 
aA. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy 
of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus; email: 
cpt@dnp.itmo.by; bEnrestec Inc., Gangshan, Kaoshiung County 820, Taiwan; 
email: morgan@enrestec.com. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 82, No. 2, pp. 242-251, 
March-April, 2009. Original article submitted March 13, 2008.