The use and analysis of new and existing biomass derived activated carbon in novel application testing for new and existing market entry

CPL工业有限公司是英国国内供暖用煤和生物质无烟固体燃料的制造和供应的市场领导者。除了这个核心业务领域，最近CPL还有一个快速增长的活性炭部门。CPL还拥有一支经验丰富的研发团队，涵盖这两个业务领域。CPL活性炭是CPL工业有限公司的一部分，是一个负责采购，再生和销售活性炭的部门，用于广泛的工业应用，覆盖英国，欧洲和最近的美国。目前采购的活性炭大部分是煤基的，从中国进口（95%），其余来自澳大利亚。CPL的研发部门已经并正在开发新的生物质衍生活性炭（使用物理和化学活化），这些活性炭需要与当今市场上现有的活性炭进行直接比较。挑战在于对所提供的活性炭的关键特性和特征（如孔结构和孔表面化学）进行深入了解。这些知识将被转移到新的和现有的实验室，试点和潜在的工业规模的现有和潜在的新兴市场的最终应用测试。该应用测试的方法将由您自己在CPL研发和活性炭部门的协助下自行开发。新的生物质碳需要在性能、成本和可持续性方面与现有的碳进行比较。该项目的一个主要重点是研究活性炭去除废水和饮用水中微污染物的性能。该项目将开始与活性炭的特点，使用一系列的设备，如微米表面和孔隙率测量，热重分析和元素分析。碳将是市场上现有碳的混合物，也是CPL研发团队生产的新碳。这些碳和潜在的碳混合物将在一个专门的实验过程中进行测试，该过程可以模拟工业风格的碳过滤器。含微污染物的水将自制或从真实的工业水处理场所引入。一旦确定了方法和实验程序，就可以进行水和废碳分析。LC分析将用于确定水中剩余的微量污染物。该项目的创新之处在于确定有效去除水中一系列主要微污染物所需的孔隙结构和表面化学，以及新的生物质衍生活性炭测试。在项目的早期阶段，碳分析可以在确定其他行业其他污染物的吸附潜力方面发挥重要作用。

CPL Industries Limited is the UK's market leader in the manufacture and supply of coal and biomass based smokeless solid fuels used in domestic heating. Alongside this core business area and more recently CPL have a fast-growing activated carbon division. CPL also have an experienced R&D team covering both these business areas. CPL Activated Carbons are part of CPL Industries ltd and is a division that is responsible for the purchase, regeneration and sale of activated carbon for a wide range of industrial applications covering areas in UK, Europe and most recently America. The large majority of activated carbon currently purchased is coal based and is imported from China (95%) with the balance from Australia. CPL's R&D division have and are developing new biomass derived activated carbons (both using physical and chemical activation) that require direct comparison to carbons currently available in the market today.The challenge is to achieve significant understanding of the key properties and characteristics of the activated carbons provided such as pore structure and pore surface chemistry. This knowledge is to be transferred into new and existing final application testing in lab, pilot and potentially industrial scale for existing and potentially new emerging markets. The methods for this application testing will be developed in-house by yourself and assisted by CPL R&D and activated carbons division. The new biomass carbons will need to be compared to current existing carbons in terms of performance, cost and sustainability. One main focus of the project will be investigating activated carbon performance for the removal of micropollutants in waste water and drinking water. The project will begin with activated carbon characteristics using a range of equipment such as the micro metrics surface and porosity measurement, thermo gravimetric analysis and elemental analysis. The carbon will be a mixture of carbons currently available in the market but also new carbons produced by the CPL R&D team. These carbons and potential carbon blends will be tested on a purpose made experimental process that can simulate industrial style carbon filters. Water containing micropollutants will be self-made or brought in from real industrial water treatment sites. Once the method and experimental procedure has been determined the water and spent carbon analysis can take place. LC analysis will be used to determine remaining micropollutant remaining in the water. Novel aspects of the project are determining the pore structure and surface chemistry required to efficiently and effectively remove a range of the main micropollutants from the water and also new biomass derived activated carbon testing.There could also be other new opportunities that arise during the early stages of the project where carbon analysis can play a big role in determining the adsorption potential of other contaminants across other industries.