Tire Derived Fuel (TDF)
If you wish to Buy or Sell
Tire Derived Fuel (TDF),
please ADD your inquiry to the Tire & Rubber Recycling Exchange.
The exchange service has been successfully matching generators and consumers of TDF on-line since 1995.
TDF is a free flowing material used as a fuel that captures the BTU value through
Waste to Energy
projects.
Shredded Tires
You may ADD a listing to the Tire & Rubber Recycling exchange
If you wish to Buy or Sell
Shredded Tires.
The shredding of whole tires may limit the options of the quality or
Grade
of end product that you may produce.
Some of the options for outlets for shredded tires are as
TDF
or as
Rubber Aggregates.
If your interested in buying or selling a
Shredder
make a connection on the recycling equipment exchange.
Tire Chipping
Tire Chipping is an efficient method to reduce
Dismantled Tire Parts
in order to segregate different
Grades & Specifications
of rubber products.
This method will allow you to yield the best
value
and presents flexibility and multiple options for outlets for your recovered materials.
If you wish to Buy or Sell
Recovered Tire Chip
(choose your grade and) ADD your inquiry to the Tire & Rubber Recycling Exchange.
Recovered Tire Chip may be used as
TDF,
Rubber Aggregates
and as premium
Granulators Feedstock
Rubber Aggregates
Shredded Tires are commonly used as rubber aggregates to blend with or replace sand and gravel as fill or
erosion protection.
This is commonly known as Tire-Derived Aggregate (TDA).
Landfill Cover
Shredded Tires are used as daily cover in sanitary landfill operations.
Course raw
Shredded Tires
are acceptable for this purpose.
Granulating Feedstock
Tire Chip
is a idea feedstock for tire granulation operations.
Premium
Grades
of
CRUMB Rubber
Guaranteed metal free, black only, black & white,
segregation of incoming feedstock streams will allow you to yield the best
value
for your recovered materials.
Tire Derived Fuel (TDF) Information
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to a core group of experienced and knowledgeable recycling industry professionals.
TDF ~ Tire Derived Fuel
Tire-derived-fuel (TDF) is a fuel derived from scrap tires.
Tire Derived Fuel, (TDF), is made by
removing
the heavy bead or rim from car and truck tires and shredding them to
produce chips that are about 2 inches or smaller.
Major industries that consume tire-derived fuel (TDF) as a supplemental fuel to increase boiler efficiency,
decrease air emissions and lower costs include cement producers,
paper mills and energy utilities.
TDF Processing
While some combustion systems, typically cement kilns, can accept tires whole, most combustion systems
require the tires to be processed to certain sizes and purity to ensure
the material consistently meets the needs of the particular fuel user. Shredding scrap tires to
produce TDF uses material processing technology which includes shredding
and removing dirt or other contaminants.
Processing tires into TDF involves two physical processing steps: chipping/shredding and metal removal.
Whole tires, or tires with the bead removed, are fed into a rotary shear shredder.
To produce TDF-size shreds and chips, whole tires are reduced to nominal 2 inch pieces using one
shredder
or a series of shredders,
screening equipment and
magnetic separation equipment.
Magnetic separators are required to remove the steel. Screening equipment, placed at the discharge of the shredder,
controls the shred/chip size where the two-inch sized material falls
through the screen openings while the oversized material is then re-circulated back into the shredder.
Because a significant amount of rubber is lost in the wire removal stream, downstream shredding and wire removal
can be employed to recover additional rubber,
making a cleaner steel product for sale as scrap and to avoid land filling this wire/rubber material.
If smaller-sized TDF (1-inch or crumb rubber) is required, then more size reduction,
metal and fiber separation, classifying, screening and cleaning equipment is utilized.
