STEAM-THERMAL RECYCLING OF TIRE SHREDS:
CALCULATION OF THE RATE OF EXPLOSION-PROOF
FEED OF STEAM

V. A. Kalitko

UDC 536.246.2

Consideration has been given to the process of steam-thermal 
recycling (steam thermolysis) of car-tire shreds in the mechanical 
worm-type reactor with a steam superheater and intrinsic utilization 
steam generation on the waste combustion products; the process was 
developed at the Heat and Mass Transfer Institute of the National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus and was put into trial-commercial operation 
in Taiwan. The combustible properties of the pyrogas and the specific 
feed of steam for the explosion proofness of the process have been 
determined on the basis of the balance model of ignition of fuel gases 
and the existing indices of the yield of thermolysis products in the 
form of pyrogas.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus; email: kalitko@tut.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-
Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 750-754, July-August, 2008. 
Original article submitted February 26, 2007; revision submitted 
September 18, 2007.