creator Khalili, Nasrin R. creator Arastoopour, Hamid creator Walhof, Laura K. The synthesis of carbon, particularly in an activated form, from sludge materials such as composed of biosolids and the like is described wherein the treated material is subjected to processing including chemical activation, light and humidity treatment, pyrolysis and physical activation to result in an activated carbon of high surface area and microporosity. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2011-12-15T19:54:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 6030922.pdf: 71733 bytes, checksum: f7a811c5385edbeb2914dd8da37aba4f (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-12-15T19:54:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6030922.pdf: 71733 bytes, checksum: f7a811c5385edbeb2914dd8da37aba4f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2000-02-29 Illinois Institute of Technology 2009-05-11 2000-02-29 6,030,922 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2428 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access