Coconut Shell Charcoal
Coconut shell charcoal is an
important product obtained from coconut shell. Coconut shell charcoal is used
widely as domestic and industrial fuel. Coconut shell charcoal is also used to
produce activated carbon. Activated Carbon produced from coconut shell has certain
specific advantages as the raw material can adsorb certain molecular species. Coconut
shell is carbonised by using methods like pit method, drum method,
destructive distillation as you can see from the video below. The coconut shell
charcoal is the raw material required for the manufacture of activated carbon.
The shell
charcoal is manufactured by burning shells of fully matured nuts in
limited supply of air sufficient only for carbonisation, but not for complete
destruction. To obtain good quality charcoal, fully dried, clean, mature shells
should be used. Now several modern methods are in vogue for the production of
charcoal.
As you can see from the above picture the inside of
the coconut shell, when correctly burnt is brittle and shinny.
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