Tire Energy
Corporation
Martinsville Facility
Our plant in Martinsville, VA is currently operational. We're presently supplying steam to our various customers.
It's taken us almost a year to "tweak" the burning process, but we've finally done it. Currently we are operating at a capacity of 27 lbs/min of tires, that's about 37,000 lbs of tires per day that does not have to be deposited into landfills or illegal tire piles. We are a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week operation, supplying some of our friends in the Martinsville Industrial Park with steam helping to reduce their energy costs.
The basis for the operation of the plant is quite simple. The tires are brought from our customers to the site in tractor trailers where they are then unloaded onto the tire conveying system. Each individual tire is weighed and "injected" into the Rotary Kiln at a rate dictated by our operators and the weight of the tires. As the tires are burned, the high temperature exhaust gasses are then directed into a Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) to produce steam for our customers. After the HRSG the flue gas is then treated with a dry sorbent to reduce emission levels to acceptable levels then through a baghouse and out the stack.
NO BLACK SMOKE
You can see our vented surplus steam to show we are in operation but NO BLACK SMOKE from the stack.
Our boiler room houses our Boiler, Deaerator, and all necessary support equipment.
Tires after being unloaded from the trailers and then going up our conveyor system for injection.
From the Control Room our operators can monitor and control all aspects of the burning process.