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SCRAP TIRES USED TO FILTER WASTEWATER
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Dr. Yuefeng Xie of Penn State's environmental engineering staff has developed a method using crumb rubber from scrap tires to filter wastewater. The crumb rubber is produced by chopping up and grinding tires to a desired size, removing metal particles and cleaning the rubber. It is currently used in highway pavement, playgrounds, landfill liners, compost bulking agents and energy recovery.
For traditional wastewater filtration, gravity downflow filters w...
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