EP3966278A1 - Recycling method of cigarette butts - Google Patents
Recycling method of cigarette buttsInfo
- Publication number
- EP3966278A1 EP3966278A1 EP20806289.3A EP20806289A EP3966278A1 EP 3966278 A1 EP3966278 A1 EP 3966278A1 EP 20806289 A EP20806289 A EP 20806289A EP 3966278 A1 EP3966278 A1 EP 3966278A1
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- cigarette butts
- mixture
- recycling
- mixing
- ethanol
- Prior art date
- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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Classifications
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B09—DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE; RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINATED SOIL
- B09B—DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE
- B09B3/00—Destroying solid waste or transforming solid waste into something useful or harmless
- B09B3/70—Chemical treatment, e.g. pH adjustment or oxidation
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B09—DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE; RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINATED SOIL
- B09B—DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE
- B09B5/00—Operations not covered by a single other subclass or by a single other group in this subclass
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B09—DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE; RECLAMATION OF CONTAMINATED SOIL
- B09B—DISPOSAL OF SOLID WASTE
- B09B3/00—Destroying solid waste or transforming solid waste into something useful or harmless
- B09B3/40—Destroying solid waste or transforming solid waste into something useful or harmless involving thermal treatment, e.g. evaporation
Definitions
- This invention is about a method of recycling tar in cigarette butts containing thousands of different toxic substances harmful to living creatures and nature, by mixing with ethanol, which is used as fuel.
- Tobacco is known to be used in a variety of ways for pleasure. Tobacco is consumed directly without any filtering process, however, it can be consumed in a filtered manner especially with cigarettes. Smoking is characterized as a visually contagious epidemic.
- the main chemical materials in cigarettes are polonium-210 (carcinogen), radon (radiation), methanol (missile fuel), toluene (thinner), cadmium (battery metal), butane (tube gas), ddt (insecticide), hydrogen cyanide (gas) chamber poison), acetone (nail polish remover), naphthalene (moth repellent), hydrogen cyanide (gas chamber poison), arsenic (mouse poison), ammonia (toilet cleaner), carbon monoxide (exhaust gas), tar (pitch) nicotine and 3,884 toxic substance.lt gives a serious damage to nature, living creatures and especially, human health.
- the cigarette butt from which cigarette smoke is filtered consists of cellulose acetate. During smoking, the gases emitted from tobacco passes through this filter into the mouth and the butts containing toxic gas are thrown into the nature.There had bee various studies and projects have been carried out in order to collect, recycle and reduce the harm to nature of cigarette butts all over the world.
- a group of researchers led by Abbas Mohajerani at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia ensured that butts were isolated using bitumen and paraffin wax to prevent toxic substances from leaking into the environment
- the isolated butts were mixed with hot asphalt mixture to obtain a concretey, dense and durable structure with low thermal conductivity. This compound was used on roads. In Brazil, under the leadership of Mark Poiato, a group of researchers produced paper from the sponge of butts. They separated the tar in the butts with the process by washing to reveal cellulose, which is the raw material of the paper.
- Chinese patent application CN108807014 discloses a method of preparing a supercapacitor electrode material using disposed cigarette butts. This method comprises the steps of chopping the disposed cigarette butts, dipping the chopped cigarette butts into water, transferring the chopped cigarette butts to the high pressure reaction vessel for pre carbonization, and then centrifuging, washing and drying.
- the supercapacitor electrode material prepared using disposed cigarette butts has a porous structure, an oxygen-rich functional group, and an ultra high specific surface area and a high nitrogen dose, so high capacitance, good speed performance and ultra high cycle stability when the material is used as the supercapacitor electrode material it provides.
- One of the advantages of the method according to the invention is that the average annual consumption of 6 trillion cigarettes consumed in the world causes harm to the atmosphere, as well as the non-biodegradable cellulose acetate-based and harmful heavy metal- containing cigarette butts, which emit into the sea, ocean, soil and groundwater after smoking which will reduce the damage.
- Another advantage of the method according to the invention is that 17 thousand people and countless living creatures will be prevented from fires caused by cigarettes every year.
- cigarette-induced fires are known to cause financial losses of more than $ 27 billion per year, which will be reduced as the method is intended to collect cigarette butts.
- Another advantage of the method according to the invention is the use of tar, turpentine, cellulosic acetate, propylene, acetophenone, ammonia, butane in cigarette butts in ethanol (ethyl alcohol) used as a fuel alone or as an additive mixed with gasoline in automobiles and other motor vehicles.
- ethanol ethyl alcohol
- Figure-1 It shows a flowchart of an alternative embodiment of the recycling method of cigarette butts of the invention..
- Figure-2 It shows a flowchart of another alternative embodiment of the recycling method of cigarette butts of the invention.
- cigarette butts are collected at the first stage and taken to the environment at 0-60°C temperature and put into water.A mixture of cigarette butts and water is mixed with mechanical or magnetic stirrers. After mixing, the mixture is filtered by means of a strainer or filters and boiled It is also possible to proceed directly to the boiling step of the mixture without filtration. Preferably, the filtered mixture is allowed to stand at 50-1 10 ° C for 1 -24 hoursAfter boiling, the mixture of cigarette tar and water is mixed with ethanol. In the other process , the collected cigarette butts are taken to a temperature of 0-60° C and placed in ethanol and mixed.. The mixture must be rest to settle the precipitates. The mixture is left to wait for 15 minutes and then it becomes ready for use after filtration.
- a process in the recycling method of cigarette butts of the present invention is essentially comprised of;
- Cigarette butts are collected at this stage The collection can be made by collecting cigarettes thrown into the environment or by creating smoking collection areas.
- Putting cigarette butts into water (110) At this stage, the collected cigarette butts are placed in an environment with a temperature between 0-60°C and the amount of cigarette butts between 5 grams and 320 grams is put into 1 liter of water.
- Filtering the mixture (130) At this stage, the mixture of water and butts is filtered by filters and the water is purified from butts. Filtration can be carried out without applying pressure with the filter or by applying pressure from the micro filters.
- Boiling the mixture (140) At this stage, tar water, separated from cigarette butts, is kept at 50-1 10°C for 1 -24 hours and this makes the water evaporated. The aim is to reduce the water content in the mixture and increase its densityAt this stage, the tar water heater can be heated or kept in a closed chamber or environment with a temperature of 50-1 10°C.
- Cigarette butts are collected at this stage The collection can be made by collecting cigarettes thrown into the environment or by creating smoking collection areas.
- Putting cigarette butts into ethanol (210) At this stage, the collected cigarette butts are prepared in an environment with a temperature between 0-60°C and a butt-ethanol mixture with a density of 5-320 g / L is prepared.
- Filtering the mixture (240) At this stage, the mixture of water and butts is filtered by filters and the water is purified from butts. Filtration can be carried out without applying pressure with the filter or by applying pressure from the micro filters.
- the fuel obtained by the method according to the invention can be used primarily as an alternative fuel in automobiles and other motor vehicles, as well as for use in machines in the industrial sector.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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TR2019/07070A TR201907070A2 (en) | 2019-05-10 | 2019-05-10 | RECYCLING METHOD OF SMOKING ISMARITES |
PCT/TR2020/050057 WO2020231362A1 (en) | 2019-05-10 | 2020-01-29 | Recycling method of cigarette butts |
Publications (2)
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EP3966278A1 true EP3966278A1 (en) | 2022-03-16 |
EP3966278A4 EP3966278A4 (en) | 2022-06-22 |
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EP20806289.3A Pending EP3966278A4 (en) | 2019-05-10 | 2020-01-29 | Recycling method of cigarette butts |
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US7560059B2 (en) * | 2005-09-19 | 2009-07-14 | Blake Burich | Process and method for recycling cigarette butts |
KR20160005298A (en) * | 2014-07-06 | 2016-01-14 | 박종호 | Withdrawal method of efficiency element in a cigarette butt |
CN106928486B (en) * | 2017-03-27 | 2020-08-21 | 浙大宁波理工学院 | Method for recovering acetate fibers from cigarette end filter tip |
CN107946082A (en) * | 2017-10-27 | 2018-04-20 | 西安理工大学 | A kind of preparation method and its usage of cigarette filter/graphene composite material |
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