Biocrude Production through Pyrolysis of Used Tyres

Table 5

Reactors and their heating methods [23, 40–42].

Reactor type	Heating method
Fixed bed	Heated wall surface
Bubbling fluidized bed	Heated recycle gas
Circulating fluidized bed	Wall and sand heating
Rotating cone	Gasification of char to heat
Auger	Fire tube
Fluidized bed/quartz	Solar
Plasma	Radio frequency
Vacuum	Direct contact with hot surface
Ablative	Wall heating