subject: Is India The Right Place To Source Coconut Shell Based Charcoal And Activated Carbon? [print this page] The coconut shell charcoal mainly used to produce activated carbon. The activated carbon produced from matured coconut shell has several advantages as the main raw material to adsorb certain molecular species.
The matured coconut shell is used for manufacturing many products of commercial importance including activated carbon. The coconut shell based activated carbon is widely used in the process of bleaching and refining of chemical solutions and vegetable oils, recovery of solvents, water purification, recovery of gold etc. The coconut shell activated carbon units of India adopt steam activation process to produce high quality activated carbon. In this process, the coconut shell is carbonized through a methods such as drum method, pit method, destructive distillation etc. In the defense sector, it is used in a wide range of filters for war gases and nuclear fall outs and in gas masks.
There is always a constant growing demand for export from India because the activated carbon manufactured from coconuts is considered highly superior to those obtained from other sources mainly because of its small macropores structure that renders it more effective for the removal of odor and colour of compounds and for the adsorption of vapour/gas.
In India the average total output in the traditional method has been recorded as 40kg of charcoal from 1000 whole coconut shells. In India, good quality coconut shell charcoal is manufactured by burning shells of fully matured coconuts in limited supply of air sufficient only for carbonization, but not for its complete destruction. In order to obtain good quality charcoal, fully matured dry and clean coconut shells are usually used in the manufacturing units of India.
The high quality coconut shell products exported from India brings in regular foreign customer and new clients to boom this business. It has brought a remarkable turnover increase in the level of production and market value of coconut based carbon product in the international market. Throughout the year, the transaction related to coconut shell products export from India is much easier and smooth because of the coordination and co-operation between the manufacturers, suppliers and clients.
