ABSTRACT
ACTIVATED CARBON ADSORBENTS
FROM WASTE TIRES FOR AIR QUALITY APPLICATIONS
Christopher M. B. Lehmann, M.S.
Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998
Massoud Rostam-Abadi, Mark J. Rood, Co-Advisors
This study evaluates methodologies for usi
ng waste tire rubber to make carbonaceous
adsorbents for potential commercial use in
air quality control operations. Such an
approach provides a two-fold environmental
and economic benefit: A recycling path is
developed for waste tires and new adsorben
ts are produced from a low cost waste
material for use in environmental operations
. Tire-derived activated carbons (TDACs)
were prepared under select processing cond
itions from recycled tire samples obtained
from several US vendors. The resulting
carbon products were generally m