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Post by scumbuster on Jul 24, 2016 18:49:40 GMT -5
Colombia inaugurates Latin America’s first large-tire recycling plant Colombian mining company Carbones del Cerrejon Ltd. has inaugurated Latin America’s first large-tire recycling plant, which will export part of its production to other countries in the region and to Asia. The plant in Albania, a municipality in the northeastern province of La Guajira, has the annual capacity to recycle 2,360 tires from mining equipment used at Cerrejon’s massive open-pit coal mine, which produces more than 33 million tons of thermal coal a year. Annual production from the plant will amount to approximately 2,300 tons of steel, as well as 5,000 tons of crumb rubber that can be used for the new fourth-generation highway network being built in Colombia, Vice President German Vargas, who headed Friday’s inauguration ceremony, said. “The rubber component in the asphalt blend provides the roads with optimal safety conditions and will greatly contribute to environmental management,” the vice president added. For his part, Carbones del Cerrejon CEO Roberto Junguito Pombo said the process of recycling large rubber tires, each of which weighs 3.5 tons and is 3.2 meters (10.5 feet) in diameter, is “fully mechanical and non-polluting.” This project to generate value from our waste arose “with the idea of going the extra mile in terms of environmental management and being an example of sustainable development,” Junguito said. Cerrejon invested 13 billion pesos (around $4.5 million) to build the plant, with Bancolombia providing the financing and Indutrade Recyling carrying out the construction. Indutrade Recycling manager Alejandro Aristizabal said for his part that commercial contacts had already been made for exporting the crumb rubber to South Korea, Chile and Brazil. colombiareports.com/colombia-inaugurates-latin-americas-first-large-tire-recycling-plant/
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Post by gallito on Jul 25, 2016 19:02:48 GMT -5
Wonder why they're just recycling Cerrejon's heavy mining equipment tires;there's a whole lot more truck rubber out there.The extra surplus could be used to fill the capital's pot holes...
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Post by jafo19d on Jul 26, 2016 12:26:39 GMT -5
Interesting. A while back we were looking into tire derived fuel projects here in Colombia.
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Post by billforce on Jul 26, 2016 19:23:40 GMT -5
Interesting. A while back we were looking into tire derived fuel projects here in Colombia. Tire derived fuel when oil is at it's peak is marginally feasible and with oil at $43. BBL there is no chance for R.O.I. I was involve for several year recycling tires in Calif. for fuel, highway construction and pyrolization. The most profitable venture was backed by John Wayne in SoCal., they were recovering carbon black and aromatic oils. The aromatic oils had a high profit margin and were used by major oil companies for oil recovery in semi-depleted oil fields..the carbon black was used for tire manufacturing but the process failed and two major tire companies almost went broke because the reclaimed carbon didn't have the necessary tensile strength and the tire failed. I furnished the specialized compressors for recovery the gas from the pyrolized tires and then they condensed it into aromatic oils. It is a very touchy subject because the by-products of pyrolizing tires in carcinogenic gases.
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