Mobile Pyrolysis

Gilead Dynamics, an Ohio clean-tech firm, is exploring a way to mobilize tire recycling with a system designed to recover carbon black at the point where tires accumulate.

Bringing the Plant to the Tires

The company’s flagship Carbon Black Extractor is built around a simple question: instead of hauling end-of-life tires to a central recycling facility, what if the facility could travel to the tires? The premise behind this mobile pyrolysis approach is logistical. End-of-life tires are heavy, bulky, and expensive to move, and they tend to accumulate in dispersed locations such as collection yards, dealerships, landfills, and rural stockpiles. A system that processes tires on site sidesteps much of that freight, shortening the distance between feedstock and recovered material while reducing the transport cost and emissions built into every conventional recycling route.

Recovering Carbon Black at the Source

At the core of the concept is recovered carbon black. Tire pyrolysis breaks down waste rubber through heat in an oxygen-limited environment, separating the material into steel, oil, and a carbon-rich char. That char, refined to specification, becomes recovered carbon black — a material that can substitute for virgin carbon black in new rubber compounds, coatings, and plastics. Making that recovery mobile means the value is unlocked where the tires already are, rather than concentrated behind the gates of a fixed plant.

Why Mobility Changes the Economics

For project developers, the appeal of mobile pyrolysis goes beyond convenience. A skid-mounted or containerized unit lowers the barrier to entry, letting operators prove the economics at smaller scale before committing to a permanent facility. The same modular logic that drives tire pyrolysis plants — standardized, replicable, and able to scale with feedstock supply — extends naturally to equipment that can be relocated as collection volumes shift. Feasibility studies for pyrolysis projects increasingly weigh logistics and feedstock access alongside process yield, and mobile units address both.

Toward Decentralized Waste-to-Value

The direction is consistent with a broader industry trend toward decentralized waste-to-value. As recovered carbon black gains acceptance as a drop-in replacement for virgin material, the ability to produce it closer to the point of tire accumulation becomes a competitive advantage rather than a novelty. Pyrolysis oil and recovered steel round out the output stream, giving mobile systems the same multi-product economics as their stationary counterparts.

Learn More:

• Tire pyrolysis technology and plants
• Recovered carbon black (rCB) production
• What is recovered carbon black?
• What is tire pyrolysis?
• Recovered carbon black plant cost
• Feasibility studies for pyrolysis projects

Take Tire Recycling Where the Tires Are

Mobile and modular pyrolysis systems are lowering the barrier to recovered carbon black production, unlocking value closer to the feedstock.

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