Open AccessThermal Modelling for A Pilot Scale Pyrolytic Furnace for Production of Carbon Black
Author(s) -
Felix Ishola,
A.O. Inegbenebor,
F. A. Oyawale
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1378/3/032089
Subject(s) - pyrolytic carbon , carbon black , pyrolysis , carbon fibers , process engineering , process (computing) , thermal , replicate , environmental science , flow (mathematics) , production (economics) , waste management , scale (ratio) , materials science , computer science , engineering , composite material , mechanics , mathematics , physics , thermodynamics , natural rubber , composite number , operating system , macroeconomics , quantum mechanics , economics , statistics
Carbon black (CB) is a very important material useful for various modern applications. There are a lot of attention currently on the extraction of a form of CB obtainable from waste tyres which is usually referred to as pyrolytic Carbon black (CBp). The authors investigated the pyrolysis process of a pyrolytic furnace built for the production of CBp using the thermal numerical principles to standardise the application. SolidWorks@ Flow Simulation software was used to replicate the process by supplying the initial conditions, the boundary conditions and the operating conditions guided by the numerical analysis. The simulated behaviour of the furnace was validated by the real-life experiments performed to produce CBp from the waste tyre.