Carbonology

Introduction It is a modern tendency in the chemical industry to continuously protect and improve the environment. Some companies apply more stringent measurements than needed to comply with the local environmental legislation. Styrene emissions can occur in the case of coating jobs. In situations...

A previous article explained that activated carbon can be defined as a crude form of graphite with a random or amorphous structure, which is highly porous over a broad range of pore sizes , from visible cracks and crevices to cracks and crevices of molecular dimensions. Activated carbon pores can...

What is activated carbon? Activated carbon (sometimes called activated charcoal) is a widespread adsorption media used in almost every industrial field. It is used in different applications such as purification (such as gas and water purification), recovery, decolourisation, deodorisation,...

Introduction DESOTEC activated carbon is a company already well established in the Benelux countries, France and Poland. As an internationally oriented company we continuously seek to improve our services to our customers and therefore decided to further expand in Southern Europe . As a result of...

Air pollution in the automotive industry One of the main factors influencing air pollution in automotive production is the generation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during the painting process. Automotive production being the production of cars, trucks, vans and busses. Several initiatives in...

In the East-Flemish municipality of Wetteren east of Ghent, around 2 o'clock on the 4th May 2013, a freight train derailment caused a number of wagons carrying chemical products to explode. This caused an inferno and the release of toxic substances in the environment. The train was transporting the...

Amino acids are used as animal feed additives (lysine, methionine, threonine), flavor enhancers (monosodium glutamic, serine, aspartic acid) and as specialty nutrients in the medical field. Glutamic acid, lysine and methionine account for the majority, by weight, of amino acids produced in the...

Biodiesel has been produced on an industrial scale in the European Union since 1992. Biodiesel is a renewable fuel produced from vegetable oils such as rape seed oil, sunflower seed oil, soybean oil and also used frying oils (UFO) or animal fats. And even so the production of biodiesel is a complex...

Amsterdam, Roeselare, 29 April 2011 - AAC Capital Partners, a leading Northern European mid-market buy-out firm, today announced that is has acquired a majority stake in Desotec NV and Desotec International bvba ("Desotec") from the company's founders. Desotec's management team, led by CEO Joost...