Don, C. Lawrence, Ed Fishbaine,
As C. Lawrence has suggested, I believe it would be worth a phone call by Mr. Lovelock, at the very least, to these people but I'm not holding my breath !!
Me thinks ... FASC should ALSO be working with these people or some one like them.
Here in the states they could benefit from NASA technology.
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GreenMan Technologies>GMTI: Purchased Tire Div from
RII (Republic Ind.)
PRODUCTION OF RECYCLED RUBBER PRODUCTS:
Used tires can be recycled if the rubber can be separated from the steel and cloth fiber tire bodies. GreenMan Technologies of Louisiana, Inc. (formerly Cryopolymers, Inc.) uses liquid nitrogen to supercool tire chips so that they become brittle.
The chips are then pounded by a hammer mill which breaks the rubber from imbedded steel wire and cloth fiber. The resulting product is termed "crumb" and varies in size from 850 micron to 75 micron. The Louisiana plant is responsible for the production of ultra-
fine crumb rubber powders for use in markets such as modified crumb rubber for asphalt, new tire manufacture, and internal use in the company's proprietary materials made from recycled plastics and rubber from tires. GreenMan Technologies of Louisiana is a subsidiary of GreenMan Technologies, Inc., which manufactures products and materials
made from recyclable tires and plastics.
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NASA Involvement:
NASA expertise in the handling, application, and properties of cryogens were used to make the crumb manufacturing process safe and efficient. Other NASA expertise in instrumentation and measurement systems, as well as automated computer control systems, were used in manufacturing control process.
Social/Economic Benefit:
1) For each pound of rubber salvaged, nearly 90 percent is reduced into crumb.
2) More than 260 million tires are discarded in the U.S. annually. Recycling of tires alleviates environmental and health hazards and the need for unsightly and unwanted landfill sites.
Industry Partner: > NASA ; Partner: Murkel Sibley, Stennis Space Center & GreenMan Technologies Of Louisiana, Inc.
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Point of Contact
Murkel Sibley > Phone: (504) 635-0092 >
GreenMan Technologies Of Louisiana, Inc.
Success Story ID # 2400008P.O. Box 2548
June 1998 St. Francisville, LA 70775 |
