Activated carbon

Activated carbon is a black, odorless, non-volatile solid available in granular, powdered, or pelletized forms; it has no defined melting or boiling point due to its amorphous, highly porous carbonaceous structure. It is classified as a processed carbon material—not a discrete chemical compound—but is produced from carbon-rich precursors (e.g., wood, coal, coconut shell) via physical or chemical activation. Primarily valued for its exceptionally high specific surface area and adsorptive capacity, it serves as a critical purification and separation agent rather than a chemical intermediate. Its main industrial uses include water and air treatment, gold recovery, solvent vapor recovery, and decolorization in food and beverage processing. Typical application areas span environmental remediation, pharmaceutical manufacturing (e.g., API purification), sugar refining, and catalyst support in petrochemical processes.

1. Beaching agent; deodorant; de-flavor agent; cleaning agent in food production; it is widely used in sugar, glucose, caramel, oil, fruit juice and wine drinks for decolorization purification, removal of colloidal substances and water treatment.2. Used for PSA separation of air and preparation of nitrogen;3. Mainly used in the Chinese or western original drug in pharmaceutical industry;4. It is suitable for the decoloring and deodorization of brewing industry, production of edible oil and food additive with special decoloring capability on caramel and molasses.5. It can be used for desulfurization, water purification, air purification, recovery of solvents, absorption and as a catalyst carrier;6. It can be used in gas, coke oven gas, natural gas, carbon dioxide and shift gas to remove hydrogen sulfide.7. Mainly used for the deodorization, dechlorination and liquid decolorization in food, beverage, pharmaceutical and high-purity drinking water; as well as widely used in the chemical industry for solvent recovery and gas separation.8. Widely used in the pre-treatment of industrial water and domestic water and the deep purification treatment on chemical, printing and dyeing, electronics, coking, environmental protection and other industrial wastewater.9. Widely used in the recycling of organic solvents including toluene, xylene, ether, ethanol, acetone, gasoline, trichloropropane and carbon tetrachloride.10. For the absorption of gas, liquid hazardous substances, the removal of various organic vapors and filtering out harmful gases and air odor.

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