How do kouei recycling plants work?
By placing whole form automobile tires into our world wide patented batch process system and heating them at a low temperature below 600 degrees Celsius. We extract oil, steel and carbon black from used tires and we resale these products. Research and development undertaken in the last few years has established that the carbon black can be converted into activated carbon, which commands a significantly higher market price than carbon black and appears to have a greater number of market outlets. The conversion can be accomplished with off-the-shelf commercially available equipment. Some loss of product is incurred in the activation process approximately 25%, but this is expected to be more than offset by the higher price. The most attractive markets for the activated carbon appear to be for waste water treatment and removal of mercury contained in flue gases generated by coal-fired electric generating plants, although there are also niche markets available where premium prices may be ob
