Tires to Diesel

Global Resource Corporation's Hawk-10 microwave emitter converts tires to diesel oil and pure carbon.

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• recycling

[foxxentertainmentvid]

can you make food in the microwave lol

[dougthewelder]

@turfguy87

It is a very big deal because it takes more energy to process this oil into usable diesel fuel than the energy content of the fuel you are producing. Like I said before this is not new technology. Now you can use this as burner fuel for a boiler without any further modification. This would be much more efficient taking some of the oil to produce the heat for the pyrolysis instead of multiple energy transitions using microwaves.

[VERGIS92]

@dougthewelder the objective is to get around fuel tax, in most countries is like 80-90% , energy can be provided at very low cost and no tax. 

[lakewood85]

This is neat... but I prefer to have the tires reduced down to small particles and burned in a fluidized bed to make steam for power. But that's just me... just sayin... we should start burning the scrap tires we have to produce power before we by another gallon of that nasty crude oil from unstable countries.

[ldavis741]

This is Awesome! Recently I saw some pieces on shows like CNN and the journal with Joan Lunden on PBS that were talking about issues and solutions for industrial recycling. This kind of thing takes it to the next level. Things look pretty bad sometimes but some of these technologies bring some hope into the situation.

[oWarpatho]

It's really not that difficult, all your doing is distilling the rubber at 475F. You can use plastic too, but milk jugs or anything with number 2 for the recycle code tends to turn into a hardened mass so best not to use.

[lewandlo]

What a scam.... He says it`s pretty hot when he takes it out of the electro- carbonizing proton absorbing microwave enducer......heheheh So he says it`s hot then he touches the glass beaker with his bare hands. Come on people? Tires are just a bi-product of man that is very expensive to get rid of. No mater how you word it .Tires are toxic. The best way to get rid of them is to make marine habitat and playground equipment. You can not make diesel fuel from old tires. Nice try Mr carbonfinger

[dougthewelder]

@dougthewelder I am not putting down pyrolysis as a very viable solution to tire recycling. One of my companies main products is tire recycling equipment, and I have built a prototype auger feed self sustaining pyrolysis unit for testing. The problem I have with the industry is everyone has been concentrating only on the process and not what to do with the extremely crude and toxic products this process produces. The only ready to sell product produced is scrap steel. 

[dougthewelder]

@dougthewelder I am not putting down pyrolysis as a very viable solution to tire recycling. One of my companies main products is tire recycling equipment, and I have built a prototype auger feed self sustaining pyrolysis unit for testing. The problem I have with the industry is everyone has been concentrating only on the process and not what to do with the extremely crude and toxic products this process produces. The only ready sell product produced is scrap steel.

[turfguy87]

@MERCURHILLMANIAC you're missing the bigger picture- a way to get rid of the scrap tire epidemic & make valuable fuel at the same time. How about get in line & help instead of shooting holes at everyones work