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Tire Waste and Recycling

  • 1st Edition - March 25, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Trevor Letcher, Valerie Shulman, Serji Amirkhanian
  • Language: English

Tire Waste and Recycling takes a methodical approach to the recycling of tires, providing a detailed understanding on how to manage, process, and turn waste tires into valuable… Read more

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Description

Tire Waste and Recycling takes a methodical approach to the recycling of tires, providing a detailed understanding on how to manage, process, and turn waste tires into valuable materials and industrial applications. Sections cover fundamental aspects such as tire use, composition, trends, legislation, the current global situation, the possibilities for moving towards a circular economy, lifecycle options, treatment methods, and opportunities for re-use, recycling and recovery. Subsequent sections of the book focus on specific technologies that enable the utilization of waste tires in the development of high value materials and advanced applications. Finally, the future of tire recycling is considered.

This is an essential resource for scientists, R&D professionals, engineers and manufacturers working in the tire, rubber, waste, recycling, automotive and aerospace industries. In academia, the book will be of interest to researchers and advanced scientists across rubber science, polymer science, materials engineering, environmental science, chemistry and chemical engineering.

Key features

  • Offers systematic coverage of tire recycling, covering composition, lifecycle, processing options, material developments and latest technologies
  • Explains end-of-life-options in detail, considering approaches and methods for reduction, re-use, recycling and recovery
  • Explores key application and product areas for recycled tire materials, from civil engineering, sports and leisure, to roads and transport, construction, automotive, and many more

Readership

Industry: Scientists, R&D professionals, engineers, and manufacturers working in the tire, rubber, waste, recycling, automotive, and aerospace industries.
Academia: Researchers and advanced scientists, across rubber science, polymer science, materials engineering, environmental science, chemistry, and chemical engineering.

Table of contents

Part I. Introduction and Basic Information About Tires

1. An Introduction to Tires and Recycling
Valerie Shulman

2. Tires and the Tire Market
Peter Taylor

3. Global Motorization: Increasing Tire Usage
Simon Hodson

4. Management of End-of-Life Tyres
Valerie Shulman

Part II. Towards a Circular Economy

5. The 4 Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover
Peter Taylor

Part III. Material Treatments and Technologies

6. Cryogenic Tire Recycling
James Anderson

7. Regeneration and Devulcanization

7a. Devulcanization
Wilma Dierkes and Siti Saiyidah

7b. In-Product-Sorting End of Life Tires for Effective Recycling by Devulcanization
Said Seghar and Florian Lacroix

8. Make Rubber, Sell Rubber: Building a Sustainable Industry
Douglas Elroy Fimrite

9. Pyrolysis

9a. Technologies Update Towards Recovered Carbon Black
Juan Daniel Martinez Angel, Celine Gisele Jung, and Jean Paul Bouysset

9b.　Recovered Carbon Black: Characteristics and Properties in Compounds
Juan Daniel Martinez Angel, Celine Gisele Jung, and Jean Paul Bouysset

9c. Recovered Carbon Black: Potential Markets
Juan Daniel Martinez Angel, Celine Gisele Jung, and Jean Paul Bouysset

9d. Recycling of Waste Tires for Silicon Carbide Production
Giacinto Cornacchia

10. Surface Modified Materials
Frank Lindner and Alexander Paasche

11. Moulding Industrial Products from Tire Ground Rubber
Fabrizio Quadrini

Part IV. Key Markets for Recycling Materials, Products, Applications

12. Environmental Impact of Tires Used in Marine Construction
Kenneth John Collins

13. Civil Engineering Applications

13a. Surface Modification of Crumb Rubber by Cold Plasma for Performance Enhancement of Rubberized Asphalt
Serji Amirkhanian

13b. Application of Rubberized Asphalt Mixtures in Low Temperature Environments
Serji Amirkhanian

13c. Application of Rubberized Asphalt Materials: Chinese Experiences
Feipeng Xiao

13d. Quiet Pavements: A Novel Approach of Utilizing Rubberized Asphalt Mixtures
Krishna Prapoorna Biligiri

13e. Utilization of Crumb Rubber Modifiers in Producing Polymer Asphalt Emulsions
Amanda Koh

13f. Utilization of Rubberized Asphalt in the EU
Davide Lopresti

14. Sports and Leisure Infrastructure and Applications
Nicolas Evans

15. Roads to Opportunities
Serji Amirkhanian

16. Construction: Acoustic Insulation in Buildings and Railway Applications
Valenti Fontsere Pujol

17. Reuse of Tyre Constituents in Concrete
Kyriacos Neocleous

18. Tire Derived Aggregate Applications in Civil Engineering
Armen Amirkhanian

Part V. The Future

19. Green Public Procurement
Ettore Musacchi

20. Roads to the Future
Valerie Shulman and Serji Amirkhanian

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 25, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

TL

Trevor Letcher

Professor Trevor Letcher is an Emeritus Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and living in the United Kingdom. He was previously Professor of Chemistry, and Head of Department, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University, and Natal, in South Africa (1969-2004). He has published over 300 papers on areas such as chemical thermodynamic and waste from landfill in peer reviewed journals, and 100 papers in popular science and education journals. Prof. Letcher has edited and/or written 32 major books, of which 22 were published by Elsevier, on topics ranging from future energy, climate change, storing energy, waste, tyre waste and recycling, wind energy, solar energy, managing global warming, plastic waste, renewable energy, and environmental disasters. He has been awarded gold medals by the South African Institute of Chemistry and the South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics honoured him with a Festschrift in 2018. He is a life member of both the Royal Society of Chemistry (London) and the South African Institute of Chemistry. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, and is a Director of the Board of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics since 2002.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

VS

Valerie Shulman

Valerie L. Shulman is the Secretary General of the European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA). The research she initiated in 1989 formed the nucleus of ETRA which was founded five years later. ETRA has over 250 member companies and organisations in 46 countries, worldwide. Dr. Shulman was a contributor to the Basel Convention Guidelines on Use Tyres (1999) and has represented the recycling industries at Waste Policy hearings in the European Parliament. She has participated in numerous research projects, prepared more than 100 articles in scientific and industry journals and authored or co-authored several books on tyre recycling technologies, materials and applications.
Affiliations and expertise
Secretary General, European Tyre Recycling Association (ETRA), Brussels, Belgium

SA

Serji Amirkhanian

Dr. Serji Amirkhanian is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA. He was the Mays Professor of Transportation and the Director of the Asphalt Rubber Technology Services (ARTS) in the Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University until June of 2010, before he started his international consulting activities. He is also an Adjunct Research Faculty at UNLV and an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University (ASU). In addition, he is an Adjunct Faculty at IIT Madras (India) and a professor of Civil Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology (Wuhan, China). Dr. Amirkhanian started his teaching career in 1987 at Clemson University. The total dollar amount of his research and teaching the DOT certification courses contracts exceeded $25 million. His research has resulted in over 250 refereed journal papers, conference papers and research reports. He has also published two book chapters. In addition, he has conducted over 200 presentations around the country and the world presenting his research findings.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Civil Engineering, Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA

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