Introduction to carbon technologies

Currently, the subject areas of carbon and graphite materials, their manufacture, properties and applications need to be described, comprehensively, in book format, at an up-to-date and introductory level. This book introduces the reader to such carbon materials as active carbons, carbons as catalyst supports, carbon blacks, synthetic graphites, anode carbon, carbon fibre/matrix carbon composites, as well as coal-tar pich, concluding with a Chapter setting out limits in emissions of discharges into the atmosphere from these industries. The book is intended for students of, e.g., materials science, engineering materials, chemistry and technology of the environment, and serves both as a text-book and as a reference book. The availability of this text allows appropriate courses to be established within our educational institutions, worldwide.

1. Carbon Materials: An Overview of Carbon Artifacts.
2. Activated Carbon: Structure, characterization, preparation and applications.
3. Carbon as a Catalyst Support: Production, properties and applications.
4. Carbon Blacks: Production, properties and applications.
5. Carbon and Diamond Films.
6. A History of Pitch Technologies.
7. Pitch Production: Supply, coking, optical microscopy and applications.
8. Pitch Characterization for Industrial Applications.
9. Pitch Pyrolysis Chemistry, Mesophase Chemistry and Coking.
10. Delayed Coking: Practice and Theory.
11. The Manufacture of Graphite Electrodes.
12. The Manufacture of Carbon Anodes for Aluminium Production.
13. High-Density Isotropic Graphites and Glassy Carbons: Japanese situation: Production, properties and applications.
14. Carbon Fiber/Carbon Composites: Production, properties and applications.
15. Global Climatology and Pollution.
Unit Conversions.
Subject Index.