摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an activated carbon manufacturing apparatus which can obtain activated carbon homogenously activated and specially, capable of obtaining an electric double layer capacitor having high capacitance and high durability, when it is used as a carbon material for the electric double layer capacitor, and which can safely capture a metal vapor generated, and can safely and efficiently manufacture high grade activated carbon with an industrial scale. <P>SOLUTION: The activated carbon manufacturing apparatus producing activated carbon by heating a carbon material and a metal hydroxide, is provided with a transporting means for transporting a reaction container housing the carbon material and the metal hydroxide; a tunnel kiln of which the inside is provided with an atmosphere substitution chamber at the carrying-in opening, held in an inert gas atmosphere, heated up to an activating temperature in the longitudinal direction, and which has a temperature adjusting means to lower the temperature from the activating temperature; a trap chamber provided at a carrying-out opening of the tunnel kiln and capturing metals with carbon dioxide; and a cooling room provided on the downstream from the trap chamber. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT |