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The primary raw material used for making activated carbon is any organic material with a high carbon content (coal, wood, peat, coconut shells). Granular activated carbon mediais most commonly produced by grinding the raw material, adding a suitable binder to give it hardness, re-compacting and crushing to the correct size. The carbon-based material is converted to activated carbon by thermal decomposition in a furnace using a controlled atmosphere and heat. The resultant product has an incredibly large surface area per unit volume, and a network of submicroscopic pores where adsorption takes place. The walls of the pores provide the surface layer molecules essential for adsorption. Amazingly, one pound of carbon (a quart container) provides a surface area equivalent to six football fields.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agoYou get charcoal from wood, and then treat the charcoal with steam at 1000 degrees Celsius, and you get activated carbon.
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∙ 11y agoCarbon from Coal or Charcoal is activated by using thermal or chemical process to increase the active surface of adsorption.
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Specific gravity of granular activated carbon filter media?
approximately 1.40
Carbon black definition?
A carbon product obtained from liquified carbon feedstock and used mainly in the rubber industry.
Can all types of compounds be purified by activated carbon?
No, this is not a general valid method.
Is there carbon atoms in a pickle?
Naturally. Carbon atoms are present in everything that are organic or are organic derivatives. In any substance obtained from plants or animals, carbon atoms are naturally present.
What is the last step in the sequence of events when cyclic AMP acts as a second messenger?
the last step is ofcourse glycogen breakdown.......before that inactive glycogen phosphorylase-b is activated and phosphorylated to glycogen phosphorylase-a by the help of activated phosphorylase kinase........ ......phosphorylase kinase was activated by activated protien kinase..and activated protien kinase was activated by cyclic amp...........
What is the pH for activated carbon?
Activated carbon hasn't a pH.
Why activated carbon is called activated?
Activated carbon has high surface area; this characteristic improve the reactivity of the material.
What will happen if activated carbon mixed with water?
when activated carbon react with water it form carbon mono oxide
What does the company Calgon Carbon offer?
The company Calgon Carbon offers the following services: Activated carbon and speciality products, activated carbon absorption equipments, activated carbon reactivation or recycling, ultraviolet technologies, ion exchange technology systems.
What has the author Md Akram Hossain written?
Md. Akram Hossain has written: 'Modeling of activated carbon adsorption in a fixed bed' -- subject(s): Activated Carbon, Adsorption, Carbon, Activated
What has the author David O Cooney written?
David O. Cooney has written: 'Activated charcoal in medical applications' -- subject(s): Activated Carbon, Carbon, Activated, Charcoal, Drug therapy, Pharmacology, Poisoning, Therapeutic use, Treatment 'Purification of wilderness waters' 'Activated charcoal' -- subject(s): Activated Carbon, Adsorption, Antidotes, Carbon, Activated, Therapeutic use
What has the author Ben W Lykins written?
Ben W Lykins has written: 'Chlorine dioxide disinfection and granular activated carbon adsorption' -- subject(s): Activated Carbon, Carbon, Activated, Effect of chlorine on, Plants
Is activated carbon soluble?
In water? No
What has the author Michael A Epton written?
Michael A Epton has written: 'Evaluation of powdered activated carbon for removal of trace organics at New Orleans, Louisiana' -- subject(s): Activated Carbon, Carbon, Activated, Trace elements in water
What has the author Craig L Weber written?
Craig L. Weber has written: 'Unequal competitive adsorption of substituted phenols from bi-solute solution onto activated carbon' -- subject(s): Activated Carbon, Carbon, Activated, Phenols
What has the author Richard A Dobbs written?
Richard A. Dobbs has written: 'Carbon adsorption isotherms for toxic organics' -- subject(s): Activated Carbon, Atmospheric temperature, Carbon, Activated, Carcinogens, Hazardous substances
What the effect of activated carbon on pH?
it lowers the Ph
