Reprocessing of Used Tires into Activated Carbon and Other Carbon Materials

这是一个奖励，以支持继续研究利用废弃车辆轮胎生产可销售形式的碳的可行性。导致这一建议的提案源于成功完成了第一阶段的小企业创新研究项目，该项目由NSF资助编号92- 15045进行，其中证明了将废旧轮胎转化为潜在市场碳产品的热解过程的可行性。在第二阶段，研究人员计划扩展前一阶段的工作，以解决最佳轮胎粒径、激活步骤的气体成分以及工艺副产品的潜在用途等问题。该项目处理固体废物管理方面的一个重大问题。轮胎的积累有时会引发严重的环境问题。对轮胎进行再加工以回收和再利用其部件的方法可能是比控制或不控制燃烧更环保的处理方法。这个第二阶段的奖励是按照项目招标NSF 90-31，小企业创新研究的程序进行的。

This is an award to support continued research on the feasibility of using discarded vehicle tires for producing marketable forms of carbon. The proposal leading to this recommendation results from successful completion of a Phase I, Small Business Innovation Research project conducted under NSF Grant No. 92- 15045 in which the feasibility of a pyrolysis process to convert used tires into potentially marketable carbon products was demonstrated. In Phase II, the investigator plans on extending work initiated during the previous phase to address questions of optimal tire particle size, gas composition for the activation step and the potential uses for process by-products. A significant problem in management of solid wastes is addressed by the project. Accumulations of tires on occasion become ignited causing significant environmental problems. Methods to reprocess tires for recovery and reuse of their components may be a more environmentally correct way of dealing with them than either controlled or uncontrolled combustion. This Phase II award was made in accord with procedures contained in Program Solicitation NSF 90-31, Small Business Innovation Research.