In Japan, monthly, several handreds tons of carbon black are produced in the synthetic gas (H
2+CO) furnaces of the Texaco process. However, commercial uses of such carbon has not yet been developed. In this paper, the authors studied the fundametal physico-chemical properties of such byproduct carbon black and tried to find out the way of profitable utilization, especially as the some material for the dry battery industry.
The following 10 properties were studied, and compared with those of the acetylene black, which is generally used as the dry battery some material, and sometimes with those of the natural graphite and the activated charcoal: (1) electric resistances under the pressures of 10-200 kg/cm
2, (2) true density, (3) apparent density, (4) moisture absorption, (5) hydrochloric acid adosorption, (6) oil adsorption, (7) iodine adsorption, (8) ash content and composotion, (9) particle size and surface area by electron micrography and adsorption properties, (10) stereoscopic observations of the chain structure by electron micrograph.
As the results, it was found out that, the electric resistance of such byproduct carbon black was somewhat lower than that of the acetylene black, and the chain structures of both carbon were comparable, so the rise of such byproduct carbon in the dry battery industry was supposed to be hopeful, its higher ash content, about 4-9 times that of the acetylene black, suggested some draw back.
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