Benefits of tire recycling
Tire recycling has many benefits not only for each car owner but also for the community. First, it saves space in landfills. Due to their round and hollow shape, tires take up a lot of space in landfills. Eliminating bulky items like tires can free up space in landfills for other items that cannot be easily recycled.
Tire recycling can also create new beneficial products. Tire-derived fuel (TDF) is an example of a fuel produced through the high-temperature pyrolysis of scrap tires and is considered to be more energy-efficient than conventional fuels. It also releases minimal emissions.
Tire recycling can also produce other useful products such as playground grass, railroad ties and rubber asphalt.
This process also helps prevent the spread of disease. Used and discarded tires can provide nesting sites for rodents and mosquitoes. By recycling old tires, these pests can be eliminated. Diseases caused by the above animals can therefore be prevented.
How to recycle tires?
How to recycle old tires? One is to ask the local government about the situation of old tire recycling stations. You can take your old tires to a recycling station for recycling. You can also take these tires to your household recycling center. The tires can then be packaged and sent to a processing plant where they are shredded into smaller pieces by shredders. The aim is to reduce the tire's bulk and create a material that is easy to handle.
The end product is raw material that can be used in TDF, the most developed used tire market in the United States. It is widely used in cement kilns, paper mills, power companies and other industries as supplementary fuel.
After tire shredding, the tire wires can be removed, thereby increasing the tire's flexibility, versatility, and strength. The dismantled wire is recycled and often taken back to the factory because it can be used to make new steel. The remaining rubber is then screened to ensure it is free of wire and other contaminants. Clean the rubber with water and other detergents. Finally, the clean rubber is packaged and shipped to other factories that require rubber as raw material, such as rubber shoe manufacturers.
Recycled rubber can also be used in other applications such as floor rubber, asphalt rubber, animal mats and synthetic playground flooring.
Other rubber by-products can be reused in various shapes and forms. For example, fiber and nylon make up nearly 15% of a tire. After being extracted from old tires, these materials can be used to make concrete, fiberglass, plaster, slope protection and cleaning materials.
Rubber powder can also be extracted from recycled tires. This high-performance yet inexpensive material can be used to make sealing products, plastics and rubber.
Tire recycling process
The entire process of tire recycling includes the following steps:
Wire drawing machine: Remove the tire rim.
Conveying equipment: conveyor belts, screw conveyors, pneumatic conveying systems.
Tire shredder/crusher: Tear tires into thin films (50mm-150mm).
Splitting machine: Separates rubber and steel wire and processes them into rubber particles (10mm-20mm).
Magnetic separator: Separates the steel wire from the rubber-steel wire mixture.
Granulator: crushes bread crumbs to smaller sizes (1mm-7mm).
Vibrating screen: separates rubber particles of different sizes and sends oversized particles back to the crusher for secondary crushing.
Fiber Separator: Removes foreign matter and fibers.
Secondary magnetic separator: remove the small steel wire that may remain here.
Grinding: Grind the particles into powder (30 mesh-100 mesh).
