• A group of 12 students worked on this machine as a graduation project
• The machine first heats the tires until they reach evaporation point after which the vapor enters a condenser
• The product created has similar properties to pure diesel

CAIRO, August 25, 2017: A group of Egyptian students has built a machine they say can produce fuel from worn-out vehicle tires.

The device heats the tires until they reach evaporation point. The vapor then enters a condenser. The result is a product "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.

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The students are searching for investors for their project.

"Instead of polluting the environment, we recycle them [the tires] 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. (VOA)