Aplicaciones con el carbón activo

Applications with activated carbon

Depending on the application, the most appropriate activated carbon is selected either on known characteristics of the chemicals to be removed in an adsorption process or by a series of controlled laboratory tests.

Activated carbons are used in water and liquid applications for :

• municipal drinking water treatment (taste, odour and micro pollutant removal e.g. pesticides, …),
• domestic water treatment (in-line and cartridge filters),
• process water (de-chlorination and de-ozonation),
• ground water remediation,
• waste water treatment – tertiary treatment (trace organics and COD removal, deodourisation and decolourisation, powdered as bio-flock improvement in an aerobic or anaerobic biological waste water treatment plant, as an additive for physical- chemical treatments),
• raw material purification (purification of oils and fats, alcoholic and softdrinks, dyestuffs, …, decolourisation of sugar and glucose, food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals) and
• catalytic processes.

Activated carbons are used in air and gas applications for :

• air purification and environmental protection (removal of solvents and hydrocarbons, deodourisation, air conditioning, cooker hoods, flue gases, in powdered form the removal of dioxins, mercury and other trace elements from flue gases),
• cleaning process gases (removal of contaminants from hydrogen, natural gas, carbon dioxide, landfill gas, solvent recovery, …),
• respiration protection (gas masks, removal of harmful of toxic compounds),
• tank venting,
• ground water remediation,
• molecular sieves.