Ground discarded tires remove naphthalene, toluene, and mercury from water

Influence of ground tire rubber on the transient loading response of a peat biofilter

“…biofilm) could adversely affect the adsorption capacity of them as packing materials in the biofilter, although Nabatilan and Moe (2010) observed that the adsorption capacity of a GAC prefilter was not significantly affected with humidity values lower than 90%. In addition, the partition coefficient values obtained in this work are in agreement with those previously reported for sorption into rubber of aqueous phase toluene and m-xylene (Daugulis and Boudreau, 2008;Gunasekara et al, 2000;Kim et al, 1997). …”

Impacts of environmental conditions on the sorption of volatile organic compounds onto tire powder

“…Similar observations have been reported for naphthalene (NPT) and toluene (TOL) [17]. As shown in Table 2, the observed partition coefficient for EB was the highest among target VOCs.…”

Ultrasound facilitates and improves removal of Cd(II) from aqueous solution by the discarded tire rubber

“…Various methods exist for the removal of cadmium ions from solution, such as filtration, chemical precipitation, ion exchange, sorption by activated carbon and others. From the viewpoint of economics, these methods are not generally acceptable and different groups have recently focused the research on the use of low cost sorbents such as bagasse sugar [5], hematite [6], perlite [7], starch xanthate [8], sawdust of pinus sylvestris [9] and discarded automobile tires [10]. In this study, finely-ground discarded tire rubber which caused many public health and environment problems [11] has been used as an interesting and cheap medium for the sorption of cadmium from aqueous solution.…”