"i wonder if tires will be considered?" BLAST FROM THE PAST:
There was some talk about processing tires awhile ago. But, sounds like that would be far down the road.
Tires are _really_ easy.. Without giving away too much. The reactor has a beautiful ability to separate steel, carbon black powder, and the hydrocarbon gas automatically. Tires are very simple to process. Picture this:
Tire enters reactor (chunks whatever), then after 8 hours or so the carbon back is sucked out, the wire in the liquid catalyst is then extracted by reversing the reactor. Very clean.
I won't do tires at first. The yield is not as high as plastic.
" Would they first be ground up and then fed into the reactor?"
It would be very foolish of us to convert the entire tire into fuel. There is so much $$$ in a tire. How about converting the sidewalls of the tire into oil and preserve the elastomer in the treads and sell that at $0.84/pound?
If I take that a bit further, why convert the sidewalls into $0.20/litre when I can skew the curve elsewhere and get $0.70?
It's all about the hydrocarbon reforming. When you can crack a long hydrocarbon chain where you want it... then you can make more than those pumping aromatic hydrocarbons out of the ground...
Thanks to waikikian post 89232 1/14/2011.
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