Activated & Reactivated Carbon
Types of Activated Carbon We Supply
Hasten Chemical supplies multiple forms of activated carbon to match the specific requirements of each application:
Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) — Used in fixed-bed adsorption systems for water treatment, air purification, and industrial process applications. GAC provides high surface area per unit volume and can be regenerated and reused multiple times before replacement.
Powdered Activated Carbon (PAC) — Fine-mesh carbon used in batch treatment applications, wastewater treatment, and as an additive in mercury capture systems at power plants. PAC provides rapid adsorption due to its high surface-to-volume ratio and is typically used on a single-pass basis.
Reactivated Carbon — Previously used GAC that has been thermally reactivated to restore its adsorption capacity. Reactivated carbon provides 80-95% of the performance of virgin carbon at a significantly lower cost, making it an economical choice for applications where the highest virgin-grade performance is not required.
Specialty and Impregnated Carbons — Carbon products treated with specific chemicals (silver, sulfur, phosphoric acid, potassium hydroxide) to enhance their effectiveness for targeted contaminant removal, including hydrogen sulfide, mercury, and specific volatile organic compounds.
Industrial Applications
- Water treatment — Municipal and industrial water purification, groundwater remediation, wastewater polishing, and drinking water taste and odor control
- Air and gas purification — Removal of VOCs, hydrogen sulfide, mercury, and other contaminants from industrial exhaust streams, biogas, and ambient air
- Oil and gas — Amine system purification, produced water treatment, and glycol dehydration unit carbon beds
- Chemical processing — Decolorization, catalyst recovery, and purification of chemical process streams
- Food and beverage — Decolorization of sugar, purification of edible oils, and water treatment for food processing facilities
- Mining — Gold recovery by carbon-in-pulp (CIP) and carbon-in-leach (CIL) processes
- Environmental remediation — Soil vapor extraction, groundwater pump-and-treat systems, and landfill gas treatment
Sourcing and Quality Assurance
We source activated and reactivated carbon from established manufacturers across North America, maintaining quality through:
- Certificate of analysis with every shipment (iodine number, moisture content, mesh size distribution, apparent density)
- Vendor qualification and ongoing quality monitoring
- Consistent supply from multiple qualified sources to ensure availability
- Technical support for carbon selection, system design, and performance optimization
For operations using reactivated carbon, we coordinate the full carbon management cycle: supply of fresh or reactivated carbon, spent carbon collection, and thermal reactivation through our processing partners.
Why Hasten Chemical’s activated carbon?
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