Selecting The Best Activated Carbon For A Specific Application

PACS Course Number 151

9 AM to 5 PM

Caleb Olesen is the course instructor for this highly important two-day course for the users and suppliers of activated carbon products and services. It is recommended that you also take other PACS courses on activated carbon, especially PACS course number 149 titled "Activated Carbon Principles, GAED, 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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Selecting the Best Activated Carbon for a Specific Application

Course Instructor: Caleb Olesen 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
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
Competitive Technologies Compared to Activated Carbon
Chemical/oxidative destruction
Biological digestion
Extraction/distillation
Membranes
Absorption processes
Noncarbonaceous Adsorbents
Other carbonaceous adsorbents
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

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