A biofuel that uses used rubber tyres as a feedstock and can run turbo-charged diesel engines while reducing emissions by 30% has been developed. Australian start-up Green Distillation Technologies can produce 3,000 litres of bio-oil from one seven-tonne mining truck tyre and hopes to increase production to seven-tonne a year by mid-2017. An emissions-free method called destructive distillation is used to convert the waste rubber into renewable energy. Heat is applied to the tyres inside a chamber, which breaks them down into different compounds, one of which is condensed into manufactured oil.
A biofuel that uses used rubber tyres as a feedstock and can run turbo-charged diesel engines while reducing emissions by 30% has been developed. Australian start-up Green Distillation Technologies can produce 3,000 litres of bio-oil from one seven-tonne mining truck tyre and hopes to increase production to more than 8 million litres a year by mid-2017. An emissions-free method called destructive distillation is used to convert the waste rubber into renewable energy. Heat is applied to the tyres inside a chamber, which breaks them down into different compounds, one of which is condensed into manufactured oil.