Activated Carbon as a Catalyst or for Catalyst Support
With its large surface area, purity and relative hardness, activated carbon is an ideal carrier for catalytic metals or indeed as a catalyst in its own right. Chemviron Carbon produce a range of activated carbons, standard or tailor-made, which are ideally suited for use in specific applications.
Some of the applications where Chemviron Carbons activated carbon are successfully used as a catalyst are included below:
- Batteries Dry cell batteries where the catalytic activity of the internal surface area of the carbon allows zinc-oxygen depolarization.
- Cyanuric Chloride Activated Carbon promotes the chlorination of hydrocyanic acid to cyanogens chloride and ultimately cyanuric chloride.
- Glyphosate This is a biodegradable herbicide. Chemviron have produced a special catalytically enhanced activated carbon, Centaur®, which is available as a powder or granular and can be used as the oxidation catalyst for Glyphosate production.
- Merox MRM-X is a specially developed steam activated bituminous coal activated carbon for use in Merox process for mercaptan removal in petroleum distillates.
- Phosgene Activated carbon is used both for the production and destruction of phosgene. During production carbon monoxide and chloride are catalysed on activated carbon
- Precious Metals Carrier Chemviron Carbon have a range of granular and powdered, high purity, hard coconut carbons that are ideally suited as precious metal catalyst carriers for us in the pharmaceutical and chemicals industry.
