Comparison of Selected Procedures for
Generating Activated Carbon
with Special Focus on Miscanthus Straw
as a Sustainable Raw Material
Lars Carlsen and Kamilya Abit
1 Introduction
In a recent paper we reported on the production of activated carbon (AC) from
Miscanthus straw as a sustainable process to obtain the product as Miscanthus straw
can be harvested yearly for 15+ years (Abit et al. 2019). The use of Miscanthus
straw as the basis for AC production is further substantiated since the plant in
parallel can be used for soil cleaning as the roots effectively take up heavy metals
(Pidlisnyuk et al. 2014; NATO 2017; Nurzhanova et al. 2019; Dias et al. 2007). Since
the demand for AC on a global scale is increasing a wide variety of well-documented
processes for the production is available cf., e.g. Kundu et al. 2014; Gergova et al.
1994; Bae et al. 2014). Thus, it remains to be analyzed how the process based on
Miscanthus straw is comparable to already existing processes. The present study
compares selected procedures for generated AC with special focus on Miscanthus
straw applying partial ordering methodology.
1.1 Background: Factors Affecting AC Productions
Some pyrolysis features such as temperature have the most significant effect, as well
as retention time, heating rate and nitrogen flow rate.
L. Carlsen ()
Awareness Center, Roskilde, Denmark
e-mail: lc@awarenesscenter.dk
K. Abit
al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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Generating Activated Carbon
with Special Focus on Miscanthus Straw
as a Sustainable Raw Material
Lars Carlsen and Kamilya Abit
1 Introduction
In a recent paper we reported on the production of activated carbon (AC) from
Miscanthus straw as a sustainable process to obtain the product as Miscanthus straw
can be harvested yearly for 15+ years (Abit et al. 2019). The use of Miscanthus
straw as the basis for AC production is further substantiated since the plant in
parallel can be used for soil cleaning as the roots effectively take up heavy metals
(Pidlisnyuk et al. 2014; NATO 2017; Nurzhanova et al. 2019; Dias et al. 2007). Since
the demand for AC on a global scale is increasing a wide variety of well-documented
processes for the production is available cf., e.g. Kundu et al. 2014; Gergova et al.
1994; Bae et al. 2014). Thus, it remains to be analyzed how the process based on
Miscanthus straw is comparable to already existing processes. The present study
compares selected procedures for generated AC with special focus on Miscanthus
straw applying partial ordering methodology.
1.1 Background: Factors Affecting AC Productions
Some pyrolysis features such as temperature have the most significant effect, as well
as retention time, heating rate and nitrogen flow rate.
L. Carlsen ()
Awareness Center, Roskilde, Denmark
e-mail: lc@awarenesscenter.dk
K. Abit
al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
R. Bruggemann et al. (eds.), Measuring and Understanding Complex Phenomena,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59683-5_12
165