Technology
Advanced Carbon Products, LLC specializes in developing technologies that convert bottom of the barrel or low value oils into high-value products. The developed technologies utilize state of the art engineering to reduce investment and operating costs to provide the most cost effective process to produce the desired commercial products. Some of the technologies developed include the following processes:
- A continuous process to convert common petroleum and coal oil into isotropic pitch with coking values in excess of 50% and a softening point between 110°C to 120°C. The process has a short residence time and a high yield.
- A continuous process to convert isotropic pitch from petroleum and coal oil into anisotropic mesophase pitch with a high softening point (>300°C) and a high coking value (~90%). The process has a short residence time and a high yield. This mesophase pitch can be used to produce high-quality carbon fibers with a higher Young's modulus and substantially lower cost than using polyacrylonitrile (PAN).
- A novel process to convert these pitches into isotropic and anisotropic graphitic foams with a wide range of properties, including bulk specific gravities from 0.2 to 0.8. The anisotropic foams have very high heat and electrical conductivities in only one direction. Other graphitic products have also been produced.
- A highly flexible short residence time continuous process for upgrading intermediate and heavy oils into value-added aromatic oils. Aromatic content could range from 40 % to 95+%.
- A process to produce a low PAH aromatic oil for use in the tire/rubber industry and others.
- A next generation process that produces a highly aromatic oil with extremely low PAH content. This oil would potentially meet customer future needs and requirements for low PAH aromatic oils.
- A highly flexible short residence time continuous process for upgrading low cost aromatic intermediate and heavy oils into value-added pitches.
- Processes to treat feedstocks which can produce extremely low solids (QI) content pitches.
- Processes to generate feedstocks for the production of carbon fiber, graphite foam, graphite artifacts, densification of carbon/carbon composites, nanotubes and graphene.