Lampblack process

Several methods can be used for the production of carbon black. The Lampblack Process, the oldest of all, was developed by the Chinese. Initially, vegetable oil was burned in small lamps with tile covers to accumulate the carbon black formed. Later, shallow pans were used in systems with a restricted air supply. Carbon black in this process was recovered from smoke in settling chambers. This method is still used for production of small quantities of carbon black. The Channel Black Process is another method useful in the past and not important for present production. Natural gas is used as a raw material in this process it is burned in close proximity to steel channels on which carbon black is deposited. Carbon black is removed from the channels by scrapers and falls into hoppers beneath the channels. This process was discontinued in the USA in 1976 because of the price of natural gas, smoke pollution, and low yield. It is still being used in Germany, Eastern Europe, and Japan. 

The lampblack process is one of the oldest commercial processes, in which the fuel is burned in a pan beneath a fume hood lined with refractory bricks and cooled process gases containing carbon black are cooled and filtered. The process is used today for standard grades of pigment and rubber black they have coarse primary particles and broad distribution of sizes from 60 to over 200 pm. Despite development of alternatives, it has not yet been possible to replace these grades in their specific applications. 

There are several different ways of manufacturing of carbon black. The oldest method is burning vegetable oil in a small lamp, then collecting the carbon black accumulated on the tile cover. This was developed by the ancient Chinese and is called the lampblack process. Subsequently, natural gas was used as a source for what is called the channel black process [26, 53, 54]. This method burns natural gas at about 1,300 C and collects carbon black deposited on steel channels. When exposed to air at high temperature, channel process carbon blacks appear to become porous. 

Processing. Tungsten carbide is made by heating a mixture of lampblack with tungsten powder in such proportions that a compound with a combined carbon of 6.25 wt % is obtained. The ratio of free-to-combined carbon is of extreme importance. Tantalum and titanium carbides are made by heating a mixture of carbon with the metal oxide. Multicarbide powders, such as M02C—WC, TaC—NbC, and TiC—TaC—WC, are made by a variety of methods, the most important of which is carburization of powder mixtures. 

A number of processes have been used to produce carbon black including the oil-furnace, impingement (channel), lampblack, and the thermal decomposition of natural gas and acetjiene (3). These processes produce different grades of carbon and are referred to by the process by which they are made, eg, oil-furnace black, lampblack, thermal black, acetylene black, and channel-type impingement black. A small amount of by-product carbon from the manufacture of synthesis gas from Hquid hydrocarbons has found appHcations in electrically conductive compositions. The different grades from the various processes have certain unique characteristics, but it is now possible to produce reasonable approximations of most of these grades by the od-fumace process. Since over 95% of the total output of carbon black is produced by the od-fumace process, this article emphasizes this process. 

Table 11 Hsts the types and appHcations of special pigment-grade carbon blacks. Included in this Hst are thermal black and lampblack. Over 40 special black grades have been developed based on the furnace process having a broad range of surface areas, from 20 m /g to over 1500 m /g. The lower surface area products are used in printing inks and tinting. The high area, more expensive products find use in high color enamels and lacquers.

Lampblack The original process for making carbon black by the incomplete combustion of oils. Superseded by the Acetylene Black, Channel Black, Fumace Black, and Thermal processes. 

Lamination, paper, 18 125 Lamination inks, 14 327-328 Lampblacks, 4 762, 798t manufacture, 4 786-787 Lamproite pipes, 8 519, 520 Lanacordin, molecular formula and structure, 5 98t Lanasol dyes, 9 468, 469 Lance bubbling equilibrium (LBE) process, 23 260... 

Zirconium metal is produced from its tetrachloride by reduction with magnesium by the Kroll process. The oxide obtained above is converted to zirconium tetrachloride by heating with carbon and chlorine. In practice, the oxide is mixed with lampblack, powdered sugar, and a little water, and pelletized. The dried pellet is then heated with chlorine in a chlorinator to produce ziro-conium tetrachloride ... 

Bulk powders are made in considerable variety, but they consist always of nitrocellulose fibers which are stuck together but are not completely colloided. Some contain little else but nitrocellulose others contain, in addition to potassium and barium nitrates, camphor, vaseline, paraffin, lampblack, starch, dextrine, potassium dichromate or other oxidizing or deterrent salts, and diphenylamine for stabilization, and are colored in a variety of brilliant hues by means of coal-tar dyes. In the United States bulk powders are manufactured by one or the other of two processes, either one of which, however, may be modified considerably the materials are incorporated under wooden wheels, grained, and partially gelatinized, or the grains arc formed in a still where a water suspension of ptdped nitrocellulose is stirred and heated with a second liquid, a solvent for nitrocellulose which is volatile and immiscible with water. 

Lampblack, or soot, is an old product and is manufactured by the combustion of petroleum or coal-tar by-products in an oxygen-diminished atmosphere. In the process, the soot is collected in large chambers from which the raw lampblack is removed, mixed with tar, molded into bricks, or pugs, and calcined up to about 1000°C, after which the product is ground to a fine powder. 

In 1968 Mantell (28) described several processes for the production of carbon black. He also lists 24 distinct grades of blacks identified by their respective particle diameters (average), surface area and oil absorption (structure). These include the then common grades of channel black, gas furnace blacks, oil furnace blacks, thermal blacks, lampblack, and acetylene blacks, in language sufficient for the manufacturer to identify each grade by these three variables. 

Modern carbon black products are direct descendants of early lampblack , first produced in China over 3500 years ago. These early lampblacks were not very pure and differed greatly in their chemical composition from current carbon blacks. Since the mid-1970s most carbon black has been produced by the oil furnace process, which is most often referred to as furnace black. Table 4.1 contains selected information on carbon black. 

Of processes using incomplete combustion, the most important is the so-called oil furnace black process, in which aromatic residuum petroleum oils are preheated and then injected (atomized) into a furnace at around 1400°C. Combustion is halted by the injection of a water spray, and the carbon black is formed. The degree of aggregation of the carbon black spheres increases with increasing aromaticity of the feedstock properties and yield can be changed by varying processing variables. Other carbon blacks prepared by incomplete combustion are lampblack and channel black. 

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