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ENNORE INDIA CHEMICALS manufactures and distributes specialty mineral salts and other specialty chemical-based products for a wide range of industries and niche markets.The company was established in 1996, starting its life as a trading company before launching a production facility to supply inorganic metallic salts to the laboratory reagent market.Since then our expertise and production capability has grown, and today we work with leading companies from around Asia, in Biogas, Human, Animal and Plant Nutrition, Pharmaceutical and Biotech, Metal Finishing and Surface Treatment, Laboratory Reagents, Tantalum.We operate from two purpose-built sites that comprise warehousing for food, feed and pharma products, a fully equipped inorganic analysis lab and a multipurpose production area.The company invests in people, plant and premises and our a dedicated quality team ensure that we remain fully compliant with industry regulations.The current management team has been at the helm for the past 15 years and we continue to build on the foundations laid by the company’s founders.
What links the past with the present is our constant focus on product excellence and our ongoing commitment to clients, as they keep pace with changing requirements.
Activated carbon, also called activated charcoal, is a form of carbon processed to have small, low-volume pores that increase the surface area available for adsorption or chemical reactions. Activated is sometimes substituted with active.
Due to its high degree of microporosity, just one gram of activated carbon has a surface area in excess of 3,000 m2 (32,000 sq ft), as determined by gas adsorption. An activation level sufficient for the useful application may be attained solely from the high surface area; however, further chemical treatment often enhances adsorption properties.
Activated carbon is usually derived from charcoal and is sometimes utilized as biochar. Those derived from coal and coke are referred as activated coal and activated coke respectively.
Uses
Activated carbon is used in air purification, decaffeination, gold purification, metal extraction, water purification, medicine, sewage treatment, air filters in gas masks and respirators, filters in compressed air and many other applications.
Industrial application
One major industrial application involves the use of activated carbon in the metal finishing field. It is very widely employed for purification of electroplating solutions. For example, it is the main purification technique for removing organic impurities from bright nickel plating solutions. A variety of organic chemicals are added to plating solutions for improving their deposit qualities and for enhancing properties like brightness, smoothness, ductility, etc. Due to the passage of direct current and electrolytic reactions of anodic oxidation and cathodic reduction, organic additives generate unwanted breakdown products in solution. Their excessive build up can adversely affect the plating quality and physical properties of the deposited metal. Activated carbon treatment removes such impurities and restores plating performance to the desired level.
Activated charcoal for medical use
Activated carbon is used to treat poisonings and overdoses following oral ingestion. Tablets or capsules of activated carbon are used in many countries as an over-the-counter drug to treat diarrhea, indigestion, and flatulence.
However, it is ineffective for a number of poisonings including strong acids or alkali, cyanide, iron, lithium, arsenic, methanol, ethanol or ethylene glycol.
Incorrect application (e.g. into the lungs) results in pulmonary aspiration, which can sometimes be fatal if immediate medical treatment is not initiated.
Analytical chemistry applications
Activated carbon, in 50% w/w combination with celite, is used as stationary phase in a low-pressure chromatographic separation of carbohydrates (mono-, di-trisaccharides) using ethanol solutions (5–50%) as mobile phase in analytical or preparative protocols.
