For the production of carbon nanotubes, it is necessary to slowly burn with a small amount of oxygen ethanol, hydrocarbons ... with the formation of the structure of carbon nanotubes with a nanocatalyst. Activated carbon already has its own structure of unordered graphite. It is difficult to rearrange it into the structure of a carbon nanotube. But the idea is interesting for the use of renewals.
See our article. A process for production of nickel catalyst via using the hybrid technology, which includes the first stage of theseparation and concentration of nickel from waste materials with flotoextraction, and then the subsequent recovery of nickel salts to nickel nanoparticles in micellar solutions of sodium oleate. The resulting material was tested as a catalyst for the synthesis of carbon nanofibers by the decomposition of hydrocarbons.
Dear S. Mughal,
Just to add, perhaps you can perform screening or preliminary tests to find the ideal combination of charcoal to catalysts loading ratios/blends for the process. Typically, TGA and isoconversional kinetic analysis can help with this. Hope this helps.
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