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Chinese Translation NewsFiltration and Purification Materials: Activated Carbon Made From Coconuts Activated Carbon is one of the many filtration and purification materials used for environmental protection purposes. Activated carbon made from coconut shells is just one of the most efficient and cost effective materials sold by Prominent Systems Inc. By Samuel Chong Los Angeles. There are many materials that can be used for filtration and purification purpose. Activated carbon is one of them. Activated carbon, also known as activated charcoal or activated coal, is a form of carbon that has been processed to make it extremely porous and thus to have a very large surface area available for adsorption or chemical reactions. Because of its high degree of microporosity, just one gram of activated carbon has a surface area in excess of 500 m2, as determined typically by nitrogen gas adsorption. Typically, activated carbon can be produced from a variety of carbonaceous raw material, the primary ones being coal, coconut shells, wood and lignite. The intrinsic properties of the activated carbon are dependent on the raw material source. Coconut shell activated carbon, like its name, comes from the coconut shell that has been undergone steam activation process to create its activated carbon form. During activation, it creates millions of pores at the surface of the carbon thus increasing the total surface area. Activated carbon pores can be divided into three general sizes Micro-pores (diameter in the range of less than 2 nm), Meso-pores (diameter in the range of 2 – 25 nm), and Macro-pores (diameter in the range of above 25 nm). Coconut shell carbon has mainly micro-pores to meso-pores and due to its unique distribution of pores diameter, coconut shell activated carbon are very popular in the gas phase purification and potable water purification industries. It is nice to be able to purify gas and water using coconut shell made activated carbon. It would be even nicer to have a nice and know-how salesperson to walk you through the process in which the technologies can be applied. Jim Harvey from Prominent Systems Inc. is such a person. He has years of sales experience and knows about different aspects of activated carbons. The company primarily sells coconut shell granular activated carbon for municipalities, water districts, refineries, manufacturers, bottlers and remediation contractors and consultants. They provide complete turnkey carbon change out services on both liquid phase and vapor phase filtration systems. They also sell coal GAC and Ion Exchange Resin and mixed media filters. They can assist in analyzing the users process to get higher efficiency in the media and design and fabricate filtration vessels. The company also has vessels for sale or rent. "It is mainly an environmental sale. The product is used to filter out volatile organic compounds, benzenes and other chemicals from groundwater and drinking water. Also for odor control at wastewater treatment plants." Says Jim Harvey. "We have plantations and production facilities in Indonesia and Vietnam and buy coal GAC from suppliers in China, mainly around Datong. We have vessels manufactured here, but are looking at sourcing them in China, too." Thus, coconut is good for the environment, in a sense. You can contact Jim at (626) 423-8609 (direct) or (626) 858-1888 (office). Any comments to this article? Please write to us. This article can also be found at http://www.certifiedchinesetranslation.com/09/1216-Filtration-Purification-Activated-Carbon-Coconut.html |
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