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	—