US Patent Issued to MICROWAVE SOLUTIONS on July 21 for "Pyrolysis and depolymerization of tire material" (Canadian, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,751, issued on July 21, was assigned to MICROWAVE SOLUTIONS GMBH (Riehen, Switzerland).

"Pyrolysis and depolymerization of tire material" was invented by Annelie Stapela (Riehen, Switzerland) and Mathys Johannes Rossouw (Rayton Gauteng, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a pyrolysis method and reactor for recovering at least one component from a tire material using thermal decomposition. The tire material is delivered to a pyrolytic chamber (1), exposed to a controlled atmosphere and heated to a decomposition temperature of the at least one component in the pyrolytic chamber (1) by microwave radiation. A v...