Journal article
Cleaning steel by devulcanizing rubber from used automotive tires
Abstract
Steel from used automobile tires can be rendered suitable for recycling by stripping rubber contamination using reductive silylation with silicones.
In many cases, only a fraction of the steel recovered from end-of-life automobile tires can be recycled. About 10–20% of the steel isolated after grinding/shredding the tires is too contaminated with rubber to be accepted by metal recyclers. We report that complete devulcanization to ‘dissolve’ …
Authors
Chen Y; Ibrahim S; Zheng S; Wittenberg L; Chapple S; LaChapelle G; Iao CH; Bourke A; Brook MA
Journal
RSC Sustainability, Vol. 1, No. 8, pp. 2006–2013
Publisher
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Publication Date
November 3, 2023
DOI
10.1039/d3su00218g
ISSN
2753-8125