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CARBON MOLECULAR-SIEVES FROM BITUMINOUS COAL BY CONTROLLED COKE DEPOSITION

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Title CARBON MOLECULAR-SIEVES FROM BITUMINOUS COAL BY CONTROLLED COKE DEPOSITION
 
Creator VYAS, SN
PATWARDHAN, SR
GANGADHAR, B
 
Subject carbon molecular sieves
coal
benzene
acetylene
 
Description Carbon molecular sieves (CMS) and zeolites are widely used as microporous sieving solids for gas and liquid separations. However, due to hydrophobicity, better thermal stability, and neutrality in both acidic and alkaline media, CMSs have definite advantages over zeolites. In the present work. an effort has been made to develop suitable process conditions for synthesizing CMSs from the locally available bituminous coal. The coal was crushed, milled. and agglomerated with sulfate pulp waste liquor (SPWL) or coal-tar pitch (CTP) as the binders, and then carbonized in nitrogen atmosphere at 800-degrees-C for about 60 minutes. In order to narrow down the pore mouth sizes. acetylene and benzene were each cracked separately at 800-degrees-C to facilitate the deposition of coke on the char. Acetylene and benzene were cracked for 3 to 10 minutes, and 10 to 30 minutes. respectively. Acetylene cracked samples did not show good separation, probably because of over-coking in deeper locations. In contrast. benzene cracked samples were found to be highly suitable for CO2-CH4 separation. The best result (i.e., uptake ratio of 39.9) was obtained for feed benzene entrainment in N2 of 1.27 x 10(-4) g/ml, cracking time of 30 minutes, and this ratio was more than 10 times that of non-cocked sample. CMS samples produced using, SPWL as binder showed poor O2/N2 uptake ratios throughout (1 to 1.5), whereas samples with CTP as binder showed far more encouraging results, the best uptake ratio being 5.5 for benzene-nitrogen feed stream containing 3.508 x 10(-4) g/ml benzene and 5 minutes cracking time. This ratio is about 5.5 times more than that of uncoked sample.
 
Publisher PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
 
Date 2011-08-23T17:49:31Z
2011-12-26T12:56:32Z
2011-12-27T05:45:24Z
2011-08-23T17:49:31Z
2011-12-26T12:56:32Z
2011-12-27T05:45:24Z
1992
 
Type Article
 
Identifier CARBON, 30(4), 605-612
0008-6223
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0008-6223(92)90179-Z
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/10598
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/10598
 
Language en