[HTML][HTML] Sustainable development of waste tires recycling technologies–recent advances, challenges and future trends

K Formela - Advanced industrial and engineering polymer research, 2021 - Elsevier
Dynamic development of the automotive industry and the growing number of various
vehicles generate demand for the global production of tires. Simultaneously, high …

[HTML][HTML] Waste tire rubber devulcanization technologies: State-of-the-art, limitations and future perspectives

P Wiśniewska, S Wang, K Formela - Waste management, 2022 - Elsevier
Waste tires management is a serious and global environmental problem. Therefore,
searching for low-cost and industrial-scale applicable tire recycling methods is gaining more …

[HTML][HTML] Composition and transformation chemistry of tire-wear derived organic chemicals and implications for air pollution

C Johannessen, J Liggio, X Zhang, A Saini… - Atmospheric Pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pollution derived from car tires is of growing research interest due to its apparent
omnipresence in the urban environment and its associated toxicity. Studies have focused …

[HTML][HTML] Waste tire rubber-based materials: Processing, performance properties and development strategies

K Formela - Advanced Industrial and Engineering Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the many countries the main strategy for waste tires utilization is still energy recovery,
which use waste tires as low-cost and high-calorific alternative fuel. Although, energy …

Physical and chemical properties of non-exhaust particles generated from wear between pavements and tyres

CA Alves, AMP Vicente, AI Calvo, D Baumgardner… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
A road simulator was used to generate wear particles from the interaction between two tyre
brands and a composite pavement. Particle size distributions were monitored using a …

Microwave treatment in waste rubber recycling–recent advances and limitations

K Formela, A Hejna, L Zedler… - Express polymer …, 2019 - upcommons.upc.edu
Environmentally-friendly microwave heating is increasingly used in polymer chemistry and
technology. The selectivity and highly efficiency in the heat transfer present a huge …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical surface etching methods for ground tire rubber as sustainable approach for environmentally-friendly composites development–a review

MM Phiri, MJ Phiri, K Formela, SP Hlangothi - Composites Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
Ground tire rubber (GTR) has been used as a sustainable low-cost modifier in various
composites. However, due to the hydrophobic nature of GTR, it is in compatible with most …

Sustainable rubber recycling from waste tyres by waterjet: A novel mechanistic and practical analysis

AJ Bowles, GD Fowler, C O'Sullivan, K Parker - Sustainable materials and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Production and disposal of car tyres are major contributors to environmental damage. The
first stage in tyre rubber recycling is granulation to smaller particle sizes. The sub-optimal …

Investigating the combined impact of plasticizer and shear force on the efficiency of low temperature reclaiming of ground tire rubber (GTR)

K Formela, M Klein, X Colom, MR Saeb - Polymer degradation and stability, 2016 - Elsevier
In the present work, ground tire rubber (GTR) was mechano-chemically reclaimed at
ambient temperature using two-roll mills. Road bitumen and styrene-butadiene-styrene …

Tetraphenylphosphonium Allyldithiocarbimates: A Novel Safe Amine Class of Morita–Baylis–Hillman-Derived NBR Vulcanization Accelerators

LR Carvalho, LG Venturelli, TC Lopes… - ACS Sustainable …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Eliminating N-nitrosamines from rubber products, which are introduced by common
vulcanization accelerators, is a significant challenge faced by the industry. The class of …