Svensk Dackatervinning

Scrap tyres represent both a waste problem and a resource opportunity; both for the society and for the large recycling trade community. Annually in Europe 360 million car tyres enter the waste stream representing annual waste load of 2,5 million tons and in 1999, 39% of all scrap tyres ended on landfills. Living close to stockpiles represents a danger to life and health especially due to improper stockpiling and fires with results in air emissions and increased leaching of chemical compounds. In addition, many disease-carrying insects prefer stockpiled tyre environments as their breeding ground and represent a threat to life and health as well as reduced quality of live. The Council Directive 96/61/EC concerning integrated pollution prevention and control lays down measures concerning waste designed to prevent and reduce emissions to air water and land. Directive 2000/52/EC on end-of-life vehicle aims at the prevention of waste from vehicles primarily through reuse and recycling of materials. Our project will directly contribute to these directives. The objective of Council Directive 1999/31/EC on the landfill of waste is to provide measures, procedures and guidance to prevent or reduce as far as possible the negative effects on the environment. According to the Landfill Directive, landfill of scrap tyres are prohibited by 2003 and by 2006 landfills of shredded rubber will also be prohibited. Our project will therefore directly contribute to the Landfill Directive with respect to achieving recycling and recovery of materials and safeguarding natural resources. Our project also complies with the work programme for horizontal Research Activities para 9.3 Collective Research with specific relevance to the Objectives of the Specific programme. The project involves specific activities covering a wide field of science and technology that will in the interest of large communities of SMEs both engaged in the tyre recycling sector and rubber moulding and extrusion sector. The Technological problems that relates to industrial sectors in a way that are moiré adequate for being handled through our industrial Associations/Groupings and through Collective Research than other EU programmes. The global need for recycling of rubber is compelling. Every year more than 600 M scrap tyres are produced in the USA and Europe alone, amounting to more than 4,2 M tons of scrapped rubber material containing a weight percent of 1,5 of substances listed as hazardious waste in the Basel Convention. Our idea is to develop an innovative and novel microwave pyrolysis technology. The innovatively improved process will through shock-pyrolysis produce recycled carbon black of high homogeneity and purity together with light hydrocarbons that may be converted effectively info energy. The total market including sale of recycled carbon black, recovered energy, sale & constructions of plants has an annual value of 200m. The innovations necessary to achieve this are 1) an innovative and patentable microwave unit, a novel development of a separation unit separating dry solid output of carbon black from light hydrocarbon fractions and other residues and 2) a carbon black purity sensor and a feed black control system.