Carvão ativado a partir do bagaço de cana de açúcar

Abstract

Several lines of research, published papers in events and conferences, doctoral, postdoctoral theses and master degree dissertations, were performed in the Laboratory of Activated Carbon (LCA) of UFPB, due to the production of activated carbon and their use for removing undesirable components, and natural gas storage. Because the issue of sustainability, industries and companies are seeking for new alternatives in order to improve operating processes and reduce the waste. Activated carbon is a good candidate, for assuming this purpose very well. Various materials can be used for the production of activated carbon, such as, wood, coconut shell, coffee grain, corn, mineral coal, sugar cane bagasse and various other materials based on carbon. In this paper we show how is the production of activated carbon from sugar cane bagasse and its activation that occurs either in the physical or chemical process. Optimizing the process in the sugar cane plants, as minimizing their waste of this sub-product.