Activated carbon is a widely used adsorbent, employed throughout a variety of industries to accomplish a number of goals. Activated carbon’s unique porous surface structure allows it to capture and hold on to both gas and liquid phase particles. This ability lends itself to a …
Activated carbon is a powerful adsorbent used prolifically throughout water purification efforts to remove contaminants and undesirable components. While activated carbon can be used in a wide range of water treatment applications, it is a critical tool used throughout municipal and industrial water treatment facilities …
Activated carbon is a powerful adsorbent, widely used across a host of industries to remove contaminants or undesirable components from liquids and gases. It is especially valuable in pollution control and recovery efforts, with recent market reports predicting a healthy outlook, largely based around demand …
Prized for its extremely porous surface area, the superior performance of activated carbon as an adsorbent lends itself to a number of applications spanning across a range of industries. One of the major benefits to activated carbon is that it is capable of being restored, …
Each week on our home page, we feature three articles that are highly relevant under the current market circumstances. This week, we’re highlighting: Waste to Value: Reusing Paper Sludge in the Fertilizer Industry Waste to Value: Reusing Paper Sludge in the Fertilizer Industry looks at …
Each week on our home page, we feature three articles that are highly relevant under the current market circumstances. This week, we’re highlighting: Rotary Kiln Applications in the Pigment Industry Rotary Kiln Applications in the Pigment Industry looks at the role rotary kilns play in …
Cyanidation, or the metallurgical process of extracting gold from ore with cyanide leaching agents, has long been a primary method of gold beneficiation. Widely used throughout the world, one incredible material helps to make gold recovery from a cyanide solution possible; with its ultra-porous structure, …
Activated carbon continues to attract interest as a way to produce a premium, marketable product from biomass waste. As a powerful adsorbent, the carbon-based material has been applied in everything from water treatment to gold recovery. The nascent nature of this industry, however, is leaving …
The biomass industry has seen steady growth the past few years, as nations around the globe continue to shift focus toward more renewable energy sources. And while biomass offers direct uses in itself, it can also be converted to a number of carbon products, all …
This week’s highlighted resource is a Slideshare presentation on the production of activated carbon through the pyrolysis of biomass. Processing biomass through pyrolysis can yield a variety of end products, from biocoal and biochar, all the way to activated carbon, with additional products in between. …