The present investigation concerns with a manufacturing method of active carbon especially for liquid systems from coals by utilizing fluidize bed technique both for carbonization and activation.
Various coals in Hokkaido, i. e., Taiheiyo (non-coking) coal, Horonai (weak-cok-ing) coal and Sunagawa (weak-coking) coal were used as raw materials.
Temperature of the carbonization reactor of 155mm I. D. was self-sustained at a level between 400 and 900°C by utilizing heat evolved by the partial combustion of sample coals with air used as a fluidizing medium. Total pore volume of the produced chars was in a range between 0.3 and 0.8m
l/g, which were much bigger than those of conventional chars (0.05-0.2m
l/g) produced by thermal decomposition in an innert amosphere.
The produced chars were then activated by steam at a temperature between 700 and 900°C in a quartz tube reactor of 40mm I. D.electrically heated. Required activation times at 900°C for the present chars wers less than one hour, which were shorter than those for the conventional chars. Total pore volume of active carbon produced increased 1.5-3 times of that of the chars and was found to be bigger than that of a commercial active carbon for liquid systems.
A plot of the surface area against methylene blue adsorbability gave a straight line with the same slope for each activation product. Furthermore, the surface area occupied by micro-pores into which methlene blue molecules were impossible to penetrate was found to be constant regardless of carbonization and activation processes. Selection of raw material was thus found to be primarily important on the production of active carbon.
Since best result was obtained on a coal from the upper coal seam No.8 of Sunagawa, further investigation was performed on several coals from different coal seams of Sunagawa. It was found that each activation product had high methylene blue adsorbability of 200-290mg/g and large surface area of 800-1, 330m
2/g. Therefore, Sunagawa coal was justified as a steady source for the mass production of active carbon of high quality.
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