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The document discusses material balances for a process that extracts steel wire from waste tires. It provides material balance equations and applies them to calculate the mass flows of materials throughout the process. Key steps include: 1) A cable tire extractor separates tires (120 tons/day) into steel wire (12 tons/day) and wire chips (108 tons/day). 2) A magnetic separator further separates the wire chips into steel wire (6 tons/day) and wire chips (102 tons/day). 3) The wire chips are pyrolyzed in a reactor at 550°C to produce carbon black (40.8 tons/day), syn gas (1.02 tons/day), and pyrolysis gas (

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Material Balance For Checking

The document discusses material balances for a process that extracts steel wire from waste tires. It provides material balance equations and applies them to calculate the mass flows of materials throughout the process. Key steps include: 1) A cable tire extractor separates tires (120 tons/day) into steel wire (12 tons/day) and wire chips (108 tons/day). 2) A magnetic separator further separates the wire chips into steel wire (6 tons/day) and wire chips (102 tons/day). 3) The wire chips are pyrolyzed in a reactor at 550°C to produce carbon black (40.8 tons/day), syn gas (1.02 tons/day), and pyrolysis gas (

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MATERIAL BALANCE

Process design starts with material balances. The amount of raw materials used and goods
generated were calculated using a material balance that was taken throughout the whole
operation. The compositions and stream flows of the process are determined by balances over
individual units. The factory is designed to operate in a perpetual cycle of manufacturing. To
guarantee that the plant operates continuously for the full twenty-four hours, it will be run in
three eight-hour shifts.
Fundamentals of mass balance
The general conservation equation for the process system can be written as:
Material out = Material in + Generation - Consumption – Accumulation
Assumptions made are:
Accumulation = 0 (steady state)
Generation = 0 (no chemical reaction)
Therefore, Material out = Material in

Mass Balance over the Cable Tire Extractor:


Basis: 120 Tons/day of Feed

100% Waste Tire (M1)


Cable Tire
(M(M1) 90% Wire Chips (M3)
Extractor

10% Steel Wire (M2)


(M3)

For Waste Tire:


M1 = 1.00×120T/day
M1 = 120 T/day
For Steel Wire:
M2 = 0.10×120 T/day
M2 = 12 T/day
For Wire Chips:
M3 = 0.90×120 T/day
M3 = 108 T/day
Therefore M3 = M1-M2

M3 = (120-12) = 108 T/day

M3 = 108 T/day
Mass Balance over the Magnetic Separator:
1. Accumulation – 5.56%

Magnetic Wire Chips (M5)


Wire Chips (M3)
Separator

Steel Wire (M4)

For Waste Tire:

M4 = 0.056×108 T/day
M4 = 6 T/day

Total mass balance:

M5 = M3-M4
M6 = (108 - 6) T/day
M6 = 102 T/day

Mass Balance over the Kiln:


Syn Gas (M7)
Pyrolysis Gas
665.33 T/day
(M8)

Wire Chips (M5) Reactor (550)

Carbon Black
(M6)
19.33 T/day

Total mass balance:


M8 = M5 – (M6+M7)
M8 = 102 – (40.8 + 1.02 T/day )
M9 = 60.18 T/day

Mass balance over Distillation:

Pyrolysis Gas (M8)

Distillation Light Oil (M10)

Heavy Oil (M9)

Total mass balance


M8 - M9 = M10

M10 = (54.17 – 15.7) T/day


M10 = 39 T/day
Table 1: Overall mass balance per day

Basis: 120 Tons per day


Process Conditions
Description Mass Flow (T/day)
(Temperature and Pressure)
Tires 120 25 C, 87 kPa
Steel Wire 18 26 C, 87 kPa
Tire Chips 102 27 C, 87 kPa
Pyrolysis Gas 60.18 550 C, 300 kPa
Carbon Black 40.8 25 C, 87 kPa
Syn Gas 1.02 150 C, 200 kPa
Uncondensed
6.01 151 C, 200 kPa
Pyrolysis Gas
Pyrolysis Oil 54.17 350 C, 350 kPa
Heavy Oil 15.17 40 C, 200 kPa
Light Oil 39 40 C, 200 kPa

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