In
the last decades, with the continuous growth of people's awareness
on environmental protection and health caring, activated carbon,
depending on its special efficiency and reliability on removing
contaminants from liquid and atmosphere, has been more and more
focused on by public society. Activated carbon has tremendous
adsorptive ability,which makes it capable of collecting a wide
variety of dissolved organics and chlorine in water.As a result
of this, activated carbon has been commonly used in varieties
of industries like food, pharmacy, chemical and water treatment,
etc.
But
what is activated carbon, and how does it work? How are carbon
products manufactured? What are the properties of activated carbon?
How do carbon products differ, and how to select them?