Activated petroleum coke for natural gas storage

Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society

Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba, Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, Brazil¹  Otani, Choyou¹  Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil¹  Lisbôa, Antonio C. L.¹  Méndez, Manoel O. A.¹  Coutinho, Aparecido R.¹  Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, São José dos Campos, Brazil¹ 

关键词: petroleum coke;    activated carbon;    natural gas storage;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0103-50532006000600011

学科分类：化学（综合）

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Activated Carbons (AC) are characterized by high specific surface area and high pore volume. They are mostly produced by activation of high carbon content precursors, for example petroleum coke (PC). In the present work samples of PC were chemically activated with potassium hydroxide (KOH). The activated PC presented high capacities of N2 adsorption at 77 K, with pore volumes up to 1.5 cm3 g-1 and specific surface area up to 2500 m2 g-1. The pore size distributions obtained indicate that the activated PC has pore sizes concentrated in the supermicroporous range (diameters between 0.7 nm and 2 nm). The temperature and the impregnation ratio used in the activation process were the variables that mostly affected the porosity of the activated PC. The storage capacity of the activated PC, obtained by methane adsorption at high pressure, was 91 v/v (methane volume stored by bed volume).

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