Environment Friendly Recycling of Scrap Tube Rubber into Fuel Oil

Butyl inner tubes are used as inner tubes and inner liners in tubeless tyres. After some time it is disposed as waste because its efficiency has become reduced. Proper disposal or beneficiation of waste inner butyl tubes are of the great concern, both environmentally and for resources conservation. An environmentally friendly method for conversion of used isobutyl isoprene rubber inner butyl tube into useful products has been investigated. The method is based on catalytic cracking using batch type reactor. Optimum conditions like temperature, catalyst weight and reaction time were optimized for maximum conversion into oil for a variety of catalysts.

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Farah Jabeen is a Ph.D Scholor, holding M.Phil degree in Chemistry. Her field of Specialization is Analytical Chemistry & having more than five years Research & Teaching experience to undergraduate and graduate Students at Sarhad University.Her research area is Recycling of Waste Rubber into Usefule Products and Developement of New LC-MSMS method.