Preparation of Mesophase Pitch Feedstock for Carbon Fiber
- Advanced Carbon Products, Hitchins, KY (United States)
- Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY (United States)
A filtration process of the low cost mesophase pitch developed by Advanced Carbon Products, LLC (ACP) was developed. The mesophase pitch was melt spun into fiber at the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UKY), and converted to carbon fiber. The melt spinning process was moderately stable, but resulted in some void structure in the green fibers. The tensile properties of the resulting carbon fibers, after graphitization heat treatment, were tested yielding a modulus value of approximately 560 GPa or 81 MSI. This demonstrated that a high modulus graphitic carbon fiber is certainly possible from the ACP 20 mesophase pitch. For future work, a better balance between the softening point temperature, the spinning temperature, and filtering must be met to reduce the volatiles generated in the pitch during spinning. This would reduce voids in the fiber, facilitate spinning, and generate finer, higher performance graphitic fiber.
- Research Organization:
- Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI-The Composites Institute), Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Advanced Manufacturing Office
- DOE Contract Number:
- EE0006926
- OSTI ID:
- 1650140
- Report Number(s):
- IACMI/R005-2019/6.18
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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