Iranian Knowledge-Based Firm Produces Activated Carbon for Water Treatment, Petrochemicals
“Our company is engaged in production of water and wastewater treatment materials to help the country deal with the drought crisis based on the latest technology in the world and has made a rotary vacuum furnace with the ability to continuously produce tons of activated carbon,” said Mehdi Rahpeyma, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
He added that the activated carbon produced in the company's research and development (R&D) department is supplied to different industries, mines and petrochemicals in both powdered and granular forms and with different degrees.
“Production of advanced materials like block copolymers, polymer nanopatterns, nanolithography materials and thin films, biodegradable flocculants, superhydrophobic sheets, modified silica nanoparticles, graphene, graphene oxide, construction and design of semi-industrial and laboratory reactors, construction of FRP enrichment composites made with graphene are parts of research activities of our knowledge-based company,” Rahpeyma said.
Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal, is a form of carbon commonly used to filter contaminants from water and air, among many other uses. It is processed (activated) to have small, low-volume pores that increase the surface area available for adsorption (which is not the same as absorption) or chemical reactions.
Activated carbon is usually derived from waste products such as coconut husks. These bulk sources are converted into charcoal before being activated. When derived from coal, it is referred to as activated coal. Activated coke is derived from coke.
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