POWER PLANT FOR PROCESSING AGRO-INDUSTRIAL WASTE INTO MOTOR FUEL

Abstract

In the Russian Federation, the predominant direction in the field of waste management is not recycling, but burial and storage, both authorized and unauthorized. Various types of products, food waste, glass, textiles, polymer production waste are buried in landfills. Plastic bags, various packaging materials, rubber products decompose for tens and hundreds of years, polluting the environment. (Research purpose) The research purpose is developing an energy plant for the production of motor fuel and fertilizers by processing agro-industrial waste based on pyrolysis. (Materials and methods) Applied methods of numerical analysis, in theoretical studies used the basic provisions and laws of heat balance and mathematics. The experimental data obtained were processed by methods of mathematical statistics using electronic computers. (Results and discussion) We have developed a technology for recycling used rubber products with associated generation of thermal and electrical energy. The characteristics of the power plant operation during the processing of rubber products, as well as the composition of pyrolysis gas were determined: CO – 25, CO2 – 18, CH – 17 percent, pyrolysis temperature – 700-800 degrees Celsius. Taking into account the characteristics of rubber products, an experimental sample of a power plant was assembled as fuel. It was determined that the average payback period of this power plant is approximately 1.5-2 years. (Conclusions) This technology makes it possible to solve the problem of recycling car tire waste both from an environmental point of view and from an economic feasibility. During recycling, additional thermal and electrical energy is generated, which is directed to the needs of the production of its own economy.