Anderson Development Company

John Eerris, Environmental Protection Agency Albert Ness, Rohm and Haas Company David Riggs, Anderson Development Company Robert Rosen, BASF Corporation Kevin Shaughnessy, The Dow Chemical Company Laszio Takaco, Occidental Chemical Corporation Anthony Thompson, Monsanto Company Anthony Torres, Eastman Kodak Company RickYabroff, United Agri Products, Inc. 

From process studies carried out in this pilot plant over several years, parameters were defined to permit process and engineering designs of full commercial operations. Process economics indicated the cost of this active carbon would be greater than currently available commercial carbons. However, hundreds of evaluations in a full spectrum of applications showed that this active carbon would be competitive in many of those applications on a cost-performance basis. It will be commercially available mid-85 in various forms, trademarked as SUPER-A, from Anderson Development Company in Adrian, Michigan,... 

The first commercial plant for the production of the AMOCO superactive carbons was constructed by the Anderson Development Company, Michigan. Their products were claimed to have BET areas in the range 2800-3500 m2 g i and total pore volumes of 1.4-2.0 cm3 g1. The properties of one batch of the Anderson superactive carbon, designated AX-21 (BET area, 2960 m2 g 1 micropore volume, 1.4 cm3 g ), have been investigated in some detail (Carrott et al., 1987, 1988, 1989b). More... 

Charcoal Carbon. Active carbon AX-21 (Anderson Development Company, Adrian, MI, or equivalent) prewashed with methanol and tried in vacuum at 110°C... 

In the 1970s, researchers at the AMOCO Corporation, USA, developed a process to produce extremely high surface area carbons (over 3000 mVg) by the KOH activation of aromatic precursors such as petroleum coke and coal 2. The process was commercialized by the Anderson Development Company, USA, in the 1980s and was sub.sequently licen.sed and operated on pilot plant scale by the Kan.sai Coke and Chemicals Co. Ltd., Japan. At this time, only limited quantities of material have been produced. The activated carbon is predominantly micropo-rous, which is responsible for the high surface area, and the total pore volume is exceptionally high 2.0-2.6 mL/g. 

MBOCA has been manufactured in the United States by two companies E.l. Du Pont de Nemours and Company (Deepwater, New Jersey) and Anderson Development Company (Adrian, Michigan). However, E.l. Du Pont de Nemours and Company ceased MBOCA production in 1978, and Anderson Development Company ceased production in 1979. Presently, all MBOCA used in the United States is imported. As of 1985, there were at least four production sites in the United States that use imported MBOCA Polyester Corporation (Southampton, New York), American Cyanamid Company (Bound Brook, New Jersey), E.l. Du Pont De Nemours and Company (Deepwater, New Jersey), and Anderson Development Company (Adrian, Michigan) (OHM/TADS 1985). However, in 1992, Allchem Industries, Inc. (Gainesville, Florida), Maypro Industries, Inc. (Harrison, New York), and Miki Sangyo (USA), Inc. (New York, New York), were also reported to produce MBOCA for commercial sale (Van et al. 1992). 

Clinton P. Anderson, press release, 4 Aug. 1956, General Correspondence (Power Reactor Development Company), Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (JCAE) Papers, Record Group 128 (Records of the Joint Committees of Congress), National Archives. 

UAW press conference, 9 Jan. 1957, Social Issues Series (Atomic Energy), Reuther Papers Anderson, speech, 26 Oct. 1957, Box 963, Anderson Papers L. K. Olson to commissioners, "Meeting with APDA-PRDC Representatives," 17 June 1959, Industrial Research and AppIication-6 (Reg. Power Reactor Development Company), U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, Amended Petition for Review of an Order of the Atomic Energy Commission, 25 July 1959, Docket no. 50-16, PRDC, AEC/NRC. 

In the early 1900s, a number of European companies developed variations of the V. D. Anderson design concepts and began manufacturing mechanical screw presses. In the 1930s, after the U.S. patent had expired, other American firms did the same. These machines were able to replace large numbers of hydraulic presses. 

The American company, French Oil Mill Machinery Company of Piqua, Ohio, developed continuous solvent extraction plants starting in 1939, using a multistage BoUman-type percolation extractor (3). Soon thereafter, the Belgian Company, Extraction De Smet, started manufacturing continuous multistage belt-type extractors in 1945. V.D. Anderson of Cleveland, Ohio, joined the solvent extraction equipment supply market in 1948 with continuous HUdebrandt-type immersion extractors (5). 

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