DEVELOPMENT OF BINDER PITCH FROM CO-COKING OF COAL AND PETROLEUM RESIDUA

摘要

Many items that society take for granted have direct relation to carbon,including aluminum-based products where anode carbon is used to reduce the aluminum ore,steel from arc-furnaces using graphite electrodes,and even electric contacts on the computer keyboards (1).However,the carbon we use is increasingly dependent on the availability of petroleum-derived streams and foreign sources (2).The decrease in domestically produced oil and the subsequent reliance on imported crude oil may have a serious impact on the future of carbon products and related materials in the US,since most carbon products are typically based on petroleum coke (3).