creator Khalili, Nasrin R. creator Arastoopour, Hamid The synthesis of a carbon-based catalyst from sludge materials such as produced by the paper mill industry and the like is described wherein the treated material is subjected to processing including chemical activation with an appropriate metal-based activating agent, light and humidity treatment, and pyrolysis to result in a desired carbon-based catalyst. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2011-12-15T20:12:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 6362127.pdf: 123039 bytes, checksum: 6fb0c41c950455e2c89ac95b80d07a5b (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-12-15T20:12:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6362127.pdf: 123039 bytes, checksum: 6fb0c41c950455e2c89ac95b80d07a5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002-03-26 Illinois Institute of Technology 2009-05-14 2002-03-26 6,362,127 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2433 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access