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Title: Process and apparatus for thermally converting used or waste tires to materials usable as fuels

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5997068

The process of the invention comprises heating coarsely cut or whole used or waste tires in an oven while spraying thereon a stream of heavy oil, recycling at least a part of this oil and discharging the oil formed by decomposition of the tires as output product.

Assignee:
Institut Francais Du Petrole (France)
Patent Number(s):
US 4384151
OSTI ID:
5997068
Resource Relation:
Patent Priority Date: Priority date 29 Sep 1980, France; Other Information: PAT-APPL-306815
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English