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Supercapacitors Based on Waste Generated in Automobiles
Published in Ram K. Gupta, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Energy from Waste, 2022
Given the precarious condition of environmental pollution and degradation due to disposing and dumping of presently non-recyclable items, a prominent suitor of this “Waste-to-Use” category is scrap waste tires from automobiles, which can reduce the enormous load on Earth’s traditionally used resources. Being non-degradable [45], they stay in nature for a sufficiently long time, leading to contagious and unknown diseases. Utilizing waste tires for subtle value-added products can realize sustainable environmental mitigation policies. Waste tires were reused for new rubber products such as a playground, rubber-modified asphalts, doormats, and gaskets, and were recycled by grinding, crumbling, pyrolysis, and combustion [46]. And among them, the pyrolysis-based recycle strategy has received widespread attention due to its ability to affect the environment minimally [47].
Elastomer-Based Composite Materials Comprising Pyrolysis Carbon Black
Published in Nikolay Dishovsky, Mihail Mihaylov, Elastomer-Based Composite Materials, 2018
Nikolay Dishovsky, Mihail Mihaylov
Non-decomposing organic waste has been one of the major environmental problems. Use of tires in large numbers has resulted into immense amounts of such waste. According to statistics, scrap tires in Europe only amounted 3.3 million in 2010 while in 2011 the figure was over 5.7 million. Being resistant to moisture, oxygen, ozone, microbiological factors, and so forth, waste tires are of great environmental concern. On the other hand, that waste is a valuable source of energy and materials.1–5
Medical Rubber Glove Waste As Potential Filler Materials in Polymer Composites
Published in S. M. Sapuan, Y. Nukman, N. A. Abu Osman, R. A. Ilyas, Composites in Biomedical Applications, 2020
M. Nuzaimah, S. M. Sapuan, R. Nadlene, M. Jawaid, R. A. Ilyas
Ramarad et al. (2015) mentioned some other applications of waste rubber especially waste tires as tools for breakwater and floating purposes. The rubber can also be added into plastic material to produce mats, playground surfaces, and trails for athletic uses. Waste tires are used as a fuel source for industries that require high energy sources such as cement, pulp, paper, lime, steel, electrical, energy industry, and steam production (Ramarad et al., 2015).
Physical and chemical properties of plasma treated crumb rubbers and high temperature characteristics of their rubberised asphalt binders
Published in Road Materials and Pavement Design, 2020
Feipeng Xiao, Shenglei Yao, Jingang Wang, Jianming Wei, Serji Amirkhanian
China Automotive Industry Association reported the car consumption in 2015 and 2016 are 24.6 million and 28.0 million, respectively. In addition, according to the announcement conducted by China Rubber Industry Association, the latest forecast value of China tire production in 2017 is 635 million, which definitely causes severe environment pollution (Presti, 2013; Wang, Yuan et al., 2018; Wang, Xiao et al., 2018; Xiao, 2013). To mitigate this problem, a series of non-hazardous methods have been used to dispose the waste tires such as burning for energy generation, rethreading, reusing or recycling for civil engineering. Recycled waste tires used in civil engineering are commonly grounded into powder or granular form and utilised as aggregates or modifiers for asphalt paving mixtures. Many years of applications have proven the advantages of crumb waste tire rubber (WTR) modified asphalt, which reduces pavement glare and cracking and improves the thermal stability (Amirkhanian and Shen, 2005 ; Mashaan & Karim, 2014; Wang, Xiao et al., 2018; Xiao et al., 2009).
Performance of tire chips–gravel combinations with nonwoven geotextile and encapsulated tire chips layers used as filter/separator under incremental stress levels
Published in European Journal of Environmental and Civil Engineering, 2018
M. K. Kaushik, Arvind Kumar, Ajay Bansal
With the increased use of vehicles, many waste tires enter in the environment, potentially causing serious problems. A more productive, environmental friendly and economical feasible alternative would be to find different possibilities for large-scale reutilisation of these waste scrap tires in various civil, geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering projects. The use of waste tires may be as whole tires, tires ground down to shreds, cut in pieces to some intermediate size in form of shreds or chips. Tire shreds have properties that civil engineers generally need. Using these tire shreds may significantly reduce construction costs. Tire shreds are capable of providing free draining and are good insulator. Tire chips/shreds may be used around buried pipes and potentially, keep both the pipe and tire safe for the long-term, keeping the rubber in an environmentally beneficial end-application.
Experimental study on crumb rubberised concrete (CRC) and reinforced CRC slabs under static and impact loads
Published in Australian Journal of Structural Engineering, 2020
Danda Li, Jianzhuang Xiao, Yan Zhuge, Julie E. Mills, Henry Senko, Xing Ma
The end-of-life tyre (ELT) is one major environmental challenge across the world. Each year around 1.5 billion new tires are produced and 1 billion tires reach the end of their life. In Australia, the number is 48 million equivalent passenger unit (EPU); however, only 30% of them were recycled (Roychand et al. 2020). These waste tires cause serious environmental, health and fire risks. There is an urgent need to develop a market to extend the application of recycled tyre products, and one solution is to add rubber particles into concrete as a partial replacement for the fine aggregate. The newly developed concrete is named Crumb Rubberised Concrete (CRC), which was recently successfully applied in residential construction sectors (Youssf et al. 2020).