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Draosba2 Dumber i Recycling process extracts oil from waste rubber tires By Sally Johnstoo Televisions J R would love to have thought of it turning a dump of millions of worn rubber tires into oil and other useful products That the aim of a Quebec scientist and an Ontario businessman who plan to build a tire recycling plant to process one million discarded tires a year They want to establish similar plants in every major city across Canada within five years Chemical engineer Christian Roy who developed the recycling process and Hamilton lawyer John Unsworth believe it will be highly profitable but money t only motive they say the proiess will also help solve a major environmental problem in large cities Tire dumps are eyesores potential fire hazards and health risks because mosquitoes are attracted to the rainwater which collects in the tires It s a problem facing every metropolitan area In North America an average of one tire for every person on the continent is hurled into a dump each year Canada mountain of unwanted tires grows tonnes million tires a businessman who specialises in high tech industries has set up a called Peiro Tire thai hopes to start construction of a full stale demonstration plant and have operational by fall He expects it to be located at south of Hamilton where IS million abandoned tires lie in Canada largest rubber graveyard Though Hagersville is his first choice Unsworth has his sights set also on the Montreal area where there are two dumps containing a total of six million tires We are in with both the Ontario and Quebec governments he says We II start construction wherever the go ahead The recycling scheme uses a method developed by associate professor in chemical engineering at Laval University Quebec City It involves vacuum pyrolysis the breaking down of a compound here s rubber into its component materials by heat Roy heats the tires in a sealed chamber which has a vacuum pump to draw off volatile gases produced as the rubber breaks down The process can almost recycle a re reclaiming components which can be sold back to explains It recovers hcaw oil which makes up per of a lire weight and can be further refined plus some lighter oil Carbon black which makes up per cent can also be extracted and reused in the of oiher rubber products Steel which comprises up to 10 per cent of the tire can also be recovered by using magnets Another five per cent is Kevlar a fibre that could be sold to textile industries and the remaining five per cent are gases that are channelled into fuelling the process The cycle is completely enclosed inside the plant no air can get in or out The processor is sealed at the inlet by a column of oil from the process and at ihe outlet by a column of water used to cool one of the by products Therefore causes no pollution says Roy The system was used briefly ji the former Peiro Sun experimental plan in Stc Montreal When Sun went bankrupt for unrelated reasons Roy convinced oil refiners Ultramar Canada to buy the plant for 15 to save it from the scrap heap He began hunting for new investors willing underwrite commercialization of the recycling scheme C Science News FINE FURNITURE CUSTOM DESIGNED FURNITURE ReUpholsteryl 8531359 38 Mill St EACTON Certificates For The One Who Has Everything from The Feminine Way Open Days A Week Passive Reducing Salon ENERGIZE without EXERCISE The Feminine Way Corner Maple 116 Guelph St Rear Entrance Georgetown For Gift Certificates Today 10pm Sal 8 am Sun Bam 8734907 from ft lodes Many Titles As Well As Limited Edition Prints Canadian Christmas by Paul Landry Christmas Greetings by Charles Wysocki Cougar In The Snow by Robert Bateman Winter Sleighnde by Peter Buy Romance NEW CHRISTMAS RELEASE Limited Edition Print Titled The Ice Castle and Receive a Gift Certificate worth for the Framing Card available tor Gift Giving We have frames to choose from for you Custom Framing BOOKS by Robert Bateman Romance Gift Certificates Available Went to BELL GLASS In the Knolcreit Centre 348 Guelph St Unit 5 ft effects Gallery Framing Centre What Canadian Christmas by Paul Ilk Nova GEORGETOWN Scotia born art Paul the of Excitement filled the Handmade decora I on the horn on cither tide of covered road ltd to the harbour when litmot tree were brought name Important role tor the It wot In December wat