Review Article
Biocrude Production through Pyrolysis of Used Tyres
Table 1
Proximate analysis of used tyre rubber.
| Author | Moisture (wt.%) | Ash (wt.%) | Volatile (wt.%) | Fixed carbon (wt.%) | HHV (MJ/kg) |
| This study | 0.5 | 16.0 | 56.4 | 27.1 | 31.2 | Donatelli et al. [31] | 0.8 | 4.4 | 61.3 | 33.5 | 37.1 | Kar [32] | 1.72 | 19.13 | 59.69 | 19.45 | 27.37 | Chang [33] | 1.31 | 10.21 | 62.32 | 26.26 | 33.24 | Trongkaew et al. [14] | 1.22 | 8.73 | 62.4 | 27.6 | 35.7 |
González et al. [19] | 0.7 | 8.0 | 61.9 | 29.5 | 36.2 | Su and Zhao [34] | 0.8 | 7.41 | 64.64 | 27.15 | 39.56 | Juma et al. [9] | 1.72 | 14.01 | 61.61 | 22.66 | — |
de Marco et al. [35] | 58.8 | 27.7 | 1.72 | — | — | Williams and Bottrill [36] | 0.8 | 2.4 | 66.5 | 30.3 | — |
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