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JUNK TIRES AS AN ALTERNATE FUEL SOURCE

Landfills have traditionally denied tire dumping because tires tend to always resurface after a period of time. The result is an abundant supply of junk tires in unsightly and troublesome piles all over the country. There is a burning technology called starved air two stage combustion that can cleanly and efficiently use tires for fuel (with no need to shred or preprocess them before injection in to the furnace). The problems of controlling the combustion process have been solved by using a system that is described in this paper. The soon-to-be-built Boca Raton facility, which uses this new technology, is scheduled for start-up in March of 1985. The facility will burn about 300 tons/day of MSW and will also burn about 30 tons/day of junk tires. The energy will be used to make electricity. The tires will increase the energy output of the plant by 25% and will also bring in additional revenue in the form of a special tipping fee. (MSW will cost $15 to $20 per ton to dump at the Boca Raton plant, tires will cost $40/ton to dump. With the 10% mix of tires, the payback on the capital costs of design and construction will be 30% faster than it would be without the tires.

  • Supplemental Notes:
    • The 2nd Conference on Management of Municipal, Hazardous, and Coal Wastes, Miami Beach, Florida, 5 December 1983. Support provided by Ross Hofmann Associates, Coral Gables, Florida.
  • Authors:
    • Strauss, W S
  • Conference:
  • Publication Date: 1984

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  • Pagination: p. 266-268

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Filing Info

  • Accession Number: 00451649
  • Record Type: Publication
  • Source Agency: Energy Research Abstracts
  • Report/Paper Numbers: DOE/METC-84-34, CONF-831244
  • Files: TRIS
  • Created Date: Aug 27 2004 9:58PM