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Selecting the Best Activated Carbon for a Specific Application
PACS Course Number 151
9 AM to 5 PM
Mick Greenbank, Ph.D. is the course instructor for this highly important two-day course for the users and suppliers of activated carbon products and services. Dr. Greenbank did his doctoral work on activated carbon adsorption at Kent State University; his advisor was Dr. Milton Manes. Dr. Greenbank has had a long career focus on activated carbon. Dr. Greenbank provides consulting services to the activated carbon industry and allied technologies. It is recommended that you take other PACS courses on activated carbon, especially PACS course number 149 titled "Activated Carbon Adsorption: Principles, Practices and Opportunities," to maximize your benefits in this course. However, this course has no prerequisite and is designed for those seeking the best activated carbon for a specific application. PACS provides some 57 different training courses.
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Register by mailing a copy of the REGISTRATION FORM. Send it with a payment of $1495 to secure your attendance. Hotel information and a map will be sent to confirm your registration. Please list your special interest(s) on the registration form. Enrollment is limited to assure your maximum course benefits. On-site PACS courses are available (most PACS courses can be provided at your time and place). Telephone Henry Nowicki or Barb Sherman at 1.724.457.6576 if you need further information. PACS also provides laboratory testing and consulting services.
Selecting the Best Activated Carbon for a Specific Application
Course Instructor: Dr. Mick Greenbank under the auspices of PACS
- General topics
- What is Activated Carbon (AC) - the True AC Structure
- Tour of a carbon particle
- Physical and Chemical properties
- Ash constituents
- How does AC work - the Nature of the Adsorption Forces
- Adsorption versus Absorption
- Inherent properties of adsorption forces
- Propagation to a force field
- How to characterize activated carbon
- How is AC made - the Activation Process
- Effect of starting material on product properties
- Individual steps in the activation process
- Concept of single product family from a starting material
- Impregnation and Acid washing
- How is AC recycled - the Reactivation Process
- Effect of the spent carbon starting material
- Effect of reactivation on product properties
- Comparing reactivated versus virgin activated carbons
- What affects the Adsorption Capacity - Adsorption Thermodynamics
- What adsorbs and what does not and why
- Single component adsorption theory
- Multicomponent adsorption theory
- Adsorption isotherm handbook
- What Affects the Adsorption Rate - the Adsorption Kinetics
- Pore diffusion basics
- Transport pore structures
- Effect of pore structure on adsorption rates
- How Adsorption Systems Work - Adsorption Engineering
- Chromatographic column behavior
- Modeling column behavior
- Designing carbon adsorbers
- How to Evaluate Applications and Select the Best AC
- Key application parameters
- Modeling applications
- Selecting the optimal carbon for an application
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- Selecting The Best Carbon Form
- When to use a carbon form versus granular or powdered carbon
- Various carbon forms available
- Performance comparison of carbon forms
- Applications for carbon forms
- Highest perfomance form - Activated carbon cloth
- What is it
- How does it work
- How and when to use carbon cloth
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- Competitive Technologies Compared to Activated Carbon
- Chemical/oxidative destruction
- Biological digestion
- Extraction/distillation
- Membranes
- Absorption processes
- Noncarbonaceous Adsorbents
- Other carbonaceous adsorbents
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- How to Differentiate Activated Carbons
- What is activated carbon
- How does it work
- How to specify an activated carbon
- What is the Range of Activated Carbons Available
- Survey of raw materials used to make activated carbon
- Introduction to the activation process and carbon manufacture
- Concept of a family of products from a raw material
- Application Evaluation
- Factors affecting performance
- What adsorbs and what does not and why
- A simple performance prediction approach
- Activated Carbon Selection
- Grouping applications by their carbon requirements
- Optimizing performance for a family of products
- Finding the optimal raw material family
BRING YOUR CALCULATOR OR LAPTOP!
Course participants are encouraged to e-mail questions to Dr. Henry Nowicki at
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Henry Nowicki, Ph.D. / M.B.A
PACS Testing, Consulting and Training
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Phone: 1. 724. 457. 6576 or 1. 800. 367. 2587
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