Production of carbon adsorbents from brown coal Original Research Article

A method was developed for the production of carbon adsorbents from brown coal and the products analyzed. A mixture of brown coal with shale resin and propane asphalt enables one to produce, through existing industrial 4ess, carbon adsorbents with high mechanical strength, low ash content (3.0–4.5%), and sufficiently large micropore volume (0.11–0.16 cm3/cm3), heat of adsorption 20.4–21.4 kJ/mol, that can be utilized in adsorption-desorption 4esses removing small-size molecules from gaseous media, for water desalination and for the treatment of phenol effluents.