ACTIVATED CARBON HONEYCOMBS HAVING VARYING ADSORPTION CAPACITIES AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME

摘要

An activated carbon body (54) having flow-through channels (52) and method of making the body. The method involves combining and shaping channel-forming material and optionally fugitive pore-forming material and non-fugitive support material, and a crosslinkable resin into a green body and curing the resin. The temperature at which the channel-forming material begins to distort is greater than the curing temperature of the resin. The resin is carbonized and at the same time the channel-forming material is vaporized out to form a carbon body (54) having flow-through channels (52) in the configuration of the fugitive material. The carbon body (54) is then activated. Among other shapes the channels (52) can be straight, curved or crisscrossed.