System and process for converting whole tires and other solid carbon materials into reclaimable and reuseable components

Abstract

A system and method of converting tires or other solid carbon based material is disclosed, wherein the system and method includes providing a chamber, feeding tires or other solid carbon based material or both into the chamber, indirectly heating the chamber, rotating the heated chamber with the material in the heated chamber, collecting solid residue from the reduced material from the chamber, collecting vapor from the reduced material from the chamber, and collecting residual solids from the reduced material from the chamber for re-use. The chamber has an interior surface and may include one or more ribs on the interior surface for rotating and tumbling the material in the chamber while heating the material. In another embodiment, wherein the material includes a tire the system and method includes rotating and heating a tire in the chamber causing the tire to collapse and liquefy, exposing the metal in the tire which aids in grinding the carbon material in the tire as it tumbles, collecting solid residue, for example, tire carbons, such as carbon black, and collecting vapor, for example, vaporized oil, and benzene, methane gas, and syngas from the chamber. In another embodiment, the method includes heating the chamber to a temperature from about 350° F. to about 1100° F. using one or more low temperature gases, such as syngas, reclaimed from the material.