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PYReco to build `Europe`s first` tyre pyrolysis plant
Source: Materials Recycling Week
Tyre recycling company PYReco has announced plans to build 'Europe's first' “closed loop” tyre pyrolysis facility by the end of 2010. The plant will have the capacity to process 60,000 tonnes of tyres a year, which is equivalent to 7.5 million tyres. The project to build the plant at the Tees Valley South Tees Eco Park (STEP) is at the planning stage. During the pyrolysis process tyres will be heated in an oxygen free sealed chamber. As they decompose they will give off gas, then oil and finally leave a mix of char and steel. This will then be separated into steel, oil, gas and carbon black (carbon black is used as a pigment and reinforcement in rubber and plastic products).
Other rubber materials from motor manufacture such as belts, hoses, wipers and mud flaps can also be processed by the plant.
In a statement to industry magazine Tyre Trade, PYReco managing director Noel Harasyn said: “We need to change our perceptions of pyrolysis. For too long the technology has been regarded as one that promised much but delivered little. Those days are behind us and our plant will demonstrate just how effective pyrolysis will become at solving this and other waste related issues.”
The company said the oil and gas output alone from the first stage of the plant (two kilns) is forecast to be a quarter of a million barrels of oil equivalent a year and the carbon black will be about 20,000 tonnes per annum.
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