Advanced Carbon Products

Complex aromatic raw materials such as petroleum resids, decant oils, coal, and coal tars have been employed for many years by the carbon industry and continue to be used extensively in the fabrication of coke, carbon, and artificial graphite [1], These same feedstocks also have the potential for use in producing "advanced" carbon products such as carbonaceous mesophase, fibers, and beads 12-4]. 

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Until recently, synthesis of nanostructured carbon materials was usually based on very harsh conditions such as electric arc discharge techniques [1], chemical vapor deposition [2], or catalytic pyrolysis of organic compounds [3]. In addition (excluding activated carbons), only little research has been done to synthesize and recognize the structure of carbon materials based on natural resources. This is somewhat hard to understand, as carbon structure synthesis has been practiced from the beginning of civilization on the base of biomass, with the petrochemical age only being a late deviation. A refined approach towards advanced carbon synthesis based on renewable resources would be significant, as the final products provide an important perspective for modern material systems and devices. 

The world production of sodium carbonate has increased considerably from 12.7 10 t in 1960 to 20.6 10 t in 1970 to 31.5 10 t in 1993, which, except for production in the USA, was almost exclusively synthetic. The capacity in the Federal Republic of Germany is currently 1.9 10 t/a. USA production increased from ca. 7.7 10 t in 1981, of which 90% was from natural deposits, to 11 10 t/a in 1994, which was exclusively from natural deposits. In 1970, sodium carbonate from natural deposits accounted for 15% of the worldwide production. This proportion had increased to 35% by 1994. Further advances in the economics of sodium carbonate production from natural deposits are to be expected upon changing from mining to extraction as an aqueous solution, so-called solution mining . The high energy costs of sodium carbonate manufacture and stricter environment protection... 

Thus carbon metabolism on reefs has a tri-modal distribution (Table 2.2), and estimates of carbon production and calcification can be made by basic knowledge of bottom type. The partitioning of net carbon production and consumption, and the relationships to nutrient cycles, however, are not well understood, nor characterized, especially under field conditions. Further advances in this area of research will delineate kinetic constraints on the biogeochemical rates and their links with the carbon cycle. 

GFPMS is an European composites distributor, and has established a strong portfolio of advanced composites products, including ACG/Cytec s prepregs and Sigmatex s carbon fibre materials they do not manufacture polymers. 

Carbonate/Bicarbonate-Selective Grafted Polymers The most common surface-functionalized, carbonate/bicarbonate-selective grafted polymer is available under the trade name Dionex lonPac AS14. This universal anion exchanger for the analysis of inorganic anions was developed as an advanced successor product of the nanobead-agglomerated lonPac AS12A [23] (see Section 3.4.1.4). 

It has been known since the early 1950s that butadiene reacts with CO to form aldehydes and ketones that could be treated further to give adipic acid (131). Processes for producing adipic acid from butadiene and carbon monoxide [630-08-0] have been explored since around 1970 by a number of companies, especially ARCO, Asahi, BASF, British Petroleum, Du Pont, Monsanto, and Shell. BASF has developed a process sufficiendy advanced to consider commercialization (132). There are two main variations, one a carboalkoxylation and the other a hydrocarboxylation. These differ in whether an alcohol, such as methanol [67-56-1is used to produce intermediate pentenoates (133), or water is used for the production of intermediate pentenoic acids (134). The former is a two-step process which uses high pressure, >31 MPa (306 atm), and moderate temperatures (100—150°C) (132—135). Butadiene,... 

The technology of urea production is highly advanced. The raw materials requited ate ammonia and carbon dioxide. Invariably, urea plants ate located adjacent to ammonia production faciUties which conveniently furnish not only the ammonia but also the carbon dioxide, because carbon dioxide is a by-product of synthesis gas production and purification. The ammonia and carbon dioxide ate fed to a high pressure (up to 30 MPa (300 atm)) reactor at temperatures of about 200°C where ammonium carbamate [111-78-0] CH N202, urea, and water ate formed. 

Because an excess of ammonia is fed to the reactor, and because the reactions ate reversible, ammonia and carbon dioxide exit the reactor along with the carbamate and urea. Several process variations have been developed to deal with the efficiency of the conversion and with serious corrosion problems. The three main types of ammonia handling ate once through, partial recycle, and total recycle. Urea plants having capacity up to 1800 t/d ate available. Most advances have dealt with reduction of energy requirements in the total recycle process. The economics of urea production ate most strongly influenced by the cost of the taw material ammonia. When the ammonia cost is representative of production cost in a new plant it can amount to more than 50% of urea cost. 

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