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Title: Activated, coal-based carbon foam

Abstract

An ablation resistant, monolithic, activated, carbon foam produced by the activation of a coal-based carbon foam through the action of carbon dioxide, ozone or some similar oxidative agent that pits and/or partially oxidizes the carbon foam skeleton, thereby significantly increasing its overall surface area and concurrently increasing its filtering ability. Such activated carbon foams are suitable for application in virtually all areas where particulate or gel form activated carbon materials have been used. Such an activated carbon foam can be fabricated, i.e. sawed, machined and otherwise shaped to fit virtually any required filtering location by simple insertion and without the need for handling the "dirty" and friable particulate activated carbon foam materials of the prior art.

Inventors:
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Issue Date:
Research Org.:
Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd., Triadelphia, WV (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1175177
Patent Number(s):
6833011
Application Number:
09/976,172
Assignee:
Touchstone Research Laboratory, Ltd. (Triadelphia, WV)
Patent Classifications (CPCs):
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B01 - PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL B01D - SEPARATION
B - PERFORMING OPERATIONS B01 - PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL B01J - CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY
DOE Contract Number:  
FG02-00ER83112
Resource Type:
Patent
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Rogers, Darren Kenneth, and Plucinski, Janusz Wladyslaw. Activated, coal-based carbon foam. United States: N. p., 2004. Web.
Rogers, Darren Kenneth, & Plucinski, Janusz Wladyslaw. Activated, coal-based carbon foam. United States.
Rogers, Darren Kenneth, and Plucinski, Janusz Wladyslaw. Tue . "Activated, coal-based carbon foam". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1175177.
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abstractNote = {An ablation resistant, monolithic, activated, carbon foam produced by the activation of a coal-based carbon foam through the action of carbon dioxide, ozone or some similar oxidative agent that pits and/or partially oxidizes the carbon foam skeleton, thereby significantly increasing its overall surface area and concurrently increasing its filtering ability. Such activated carbon foams are suitable for application in virtually all areas where particulate or gel form activated carbon materials have been used. Such an activated carbon foam can be fabricated, i.e. sawed, machined and otherwise shaped to fit virtually any required filtering location by simple insertion and without the need for handling the "dirty" and friable particulate activated carbon foam materials of the prior art.},
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