Biocrude Production through Pyrolysis of Used Tyres

Table 4

Chronology of processes used for pyrolysis of used tyres.

Researcher(s)	Reactor used	Process type	Year
Gotshall [50]	n.r	Destructive distillation	1970
Alpert [51]	n.r	Hydroconversion	1972
Grannen and Robinson [52]	Microwave	Microwave pyrolysis	1974
Crane and Kay [53]	n.r	Pyrolization	1976
Herbold [54]	n.r	Subatmospheric pyrolysis	1978
Kaminsky and Sinn [55]	Fluidized bed	Pyrolysis	1980
Ito et al. [56]	Fluidized bed and incineration fluidized bed chamber	Pyrolysis and incineration	1982
Engman et al. [57]	Quartz tube	Pyrolysis	1984
Bouvier and Gelus [58]	Heated cylindrical glass flask	Tyre copyrolysis with oil	1986
Chou et al. [59]	Quartz tube	Flash pyrolysis	1988
Roy et al. [60]	Batch reactor	Vacuum pyrolysis	1990
Roy et al. [61]	Batch reactor	Vacuum pyrolysis	1992
Pakdel and Roy [62]	Continuous feed reactor	Vacuum pyrolysis	1994
Conesa et al. [63]	Fluidized bed reactor	Pyrolysis	1996
Leung and Wang [64]	Platinum pan	Pyrolysis and combustion	1998
Mastral et al. [30]	Swept fixed bed	Pyrolysis and hydropyrolysis	2000
Galvagno et al. [65]	Rotary kiln reactor	Pyrolysis	2002
Laresgoiti et al. [66]	Autoclave reactor	Pyrolysis	2004
Murillo et al. [67]	Fixed bed reactor	Pyrolysis	2006
Zhang et al. [12]	Fixed bed reactor	Vacuum pyrolysis	2008
Aylón et al. [68]	Moving bed	Pyrolysis	2010
Aydin and Ilkilic [15]	Fixed bed reactor	Pyrolysis	2012
Undri et al. [4]	Microwave oven	Microwave assisted pyrolysis	2014
This study	Plasma reactor	Catalytic copyrolysis	2014

n.r.: not reported.