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APPLICATIONS

Carbon has been used for centuries in the purification and decolorisation of water and other liquids. It is finding new uses in ever increasing number of applications in diverse fields.Coconut shell based activated carbon is ideal for both liquid phase and gaseous phase applications where purification to trace concentration is required,as they have unique properties like microporous structutre,higher adsorption capacity and hardness. ACPL activated carbon is used in many domestic and industrial applications like:

Water treatment : Purification of drinking water and ground water,treatment of industrial and municipal wastewater.
Food processing : Purification and deodourisation of edible oils and beverages before bottling.
Precious metal recovery : To extract gold from ores or tailings in gold mines.
Air purification : Conditioning of air,solvent recovery and environmental protection from pollution.
Protection equipments : Car cabin filters,gas masks,cigarette filters etc.

Industry	Description	Typical Use
Portable water treatment	Granular activated carbons(GAC) installed in rapid gravity filters	Removal of dissolved organic contaminants, control of tase and odour problems
Soft drinks	Potable water tratment, sterilisation with chlorine	Chlorine removal and adsorption of dissolved organic contaminants
Brewing	Potable water treatment	Removal of trihalomethanes (THM) and phenolics
Semi-conductors	Ultra high purity water	Total organic carbon (TOC) reduction
Gold recovery	Operation of carbon in leach (CIL), carbon in pulp (CIP) and heap leach circuits	Recovery of gold from "tailings" dissolved in sodim cyanide
Petrochemical	Recycling of steam condensate for boiler feed water	Removal of oil and hydrocarbon contamination
Groundwater	Industrial contamination of ground water reserves	Reduction of total organic halogens (TOX) and adsorbable organic halogens (AOX) including chloroform, tetrachloroethylene and trichloroethane
Industrial waste water	Process effluent treatment to meet enviromental legislation	Reduction of total organic halogens (TOX), bioloical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD)
Swimming pools	Ozone injection for removal of organic contaminants	Removal of residual ozone and control of chloramine levels
Solvent recovery	Recovery of organic solvents to optimise process economics and control vapour emissions	Acetate fibres (acetone), pharmaceuticals (methylene chloride), film coating and printing (ethly acetate), magnetic tape (MEK)
Carbon dioxide	Purification of carbon dioxide from fermentation processes	Adsorption of alcohols, amines and mercaptans
Industrial respirators	Adsorption of organic vapours	To meet CEN 141 standards - Type A respirators
Waste disposal	Disposal of domestic, chemical and clinical waste by high temperature incineration	Removal of heavy metals and dioxins from flue gas
Cigarettes	Incorporation as either powder or granulein filter tips	Extraction of some harmful elements of cigarette smoke, or taste and flavour control
Air conditioning	Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HEVAC)	Airports (partially combusted fuel odours), offices (motor vehical odours), fume cupboards (solvent odours)
Composite fibres	Impregnation of powdered activated carbon into foam / fibre / non-woven substance	Air tratment, face masks and respirators, shoe insole deoderiser and water treatment
Fridge de-oderisers	In situ filter units	Removal of general food odours