Egyptian students produce fuel from used car tyres
Engineering students, Mostafa Saeed Ali and Mohamed Amr cut up car tires in Cairo, Egypt August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
CAIRO (Reuters) - A group of Egyptian students have built a machine they say can produce fuel from worn-out vehicle tyres, after big rises in energy prices as part of recent economic reforms.
The device heats the tyres until they reach evaporation point. The vapor then enters a condenser.
The product is "very similar in properties to pure diesel and the carbon or black coal is just left inside the container," said Mohamed Saeed Ali, one of 12 students who worked on the machine as a graduation project.
Diesel oil seen dripping out of container after extraction from burning car tires Cairo, Egypt August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
The students are currently searching for investors for their project.
"Instead of polluting the environment, we recycle them {the tyres} properly in an eco-friendly manner," Saeed said.
Egypt raised fuel prices by up to 50 percent in June as a condition of a $12 billion International Monetary Fund program the country signed last year.
Diesel oil seen dripping out of container after extraction from burning car tires Cairo, Egypt August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
(Reporting by Mohamed Zaki; Writing by Arwa Gaballa)
Engineering students, Mostafa Saeed Ali and Mohamed Amr stand next to a machine used in extracting diesel from car tires in Cairo, Egypt August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El GhanyEngineering student, Mostafa Saeed Ali working near flame used in the process of burning car tires into diesel in Cairo, Egypt August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El GhanyEngineering student, Mohamed Amr adds water to production process of extracting diesel from car tires Cairo, Egypt August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El GhanyEngineering student, Mohamed Amr carries car tires to be used in extracting diesel in Cairo, Egypt August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El GhanyEngineering student, Mohamed Amr sorting care tires to be used in extracting diesel in Cairo, Egypt August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El GhanyEngineering student, Mohamed Amr works near a flame used in the process of burning car tires into diesel in Cairo, Egypt August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El GhanyEngineering student, Mohamed Amr closes the door of container used in burning car tires in Cairo, Egypt August 23, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
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