METHODS FOR PRODUCING CARBON FIBERS, RESINS, GRAPHENE, AND OTHER ADVANCED CARBON MATERIALS FROM COAL

• Main Authors: ATKINS, Charles, TARGETT, Matthew, LINDEMANN, Garrett
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 03.07.2024
• Subjects: APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF CARBONFILAMENTS; ARTIFICIAL STONE; CEMENTS; CERAMICS; CHEMICAL FEATURES IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIAL FILAMENTS,THREADS, FIBRES, BRISTLES OR RIBBONS; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDINGMATERIALS; COMPOUNDS THEREOF; CONCRETE; CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; DESTRUCTIVE DISTILLATION OF CARBONAGEOUS MATERIALS FORPRODUCTION OF GAS, COKE, TAR, OR SIMILAR MATERIALS; FUELS; INORGANIC CHEMISTRY; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; LIME, MAGNESIA; LUBRICANTS; MEASURING; METALLURGY; MINERAL WAXES; NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL THREADS OR FIBRES; NON-METALLIC ELEMENTS; PEAT; PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; PHYSICS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVEHYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; PYROLIGNEOUS ACID; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, ORGASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; REFRACTORIES; SLAG; SPINNING; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; TESTING; TEXTILES; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE; WORKING-UP PITCH, ASPHALT, BITUMEN, TAR

A method of producing advanced carbon materials can include extracting a coal sample from a location, performing a spectral analysis on the coal sample, determining one or more desired advanced carbon materials based at least in part on spectral analysis, extracting an amount of coal from the location, beneficiating the amount of coal, and processing the beneficiated amount of coal to produce the one or more desired advanced carbon materials from at least some of the amount of coal.