Driven by the growth of downstream market demand, my country’s activated carbon production has gradually increased

Activated carbon often appears as carbon powder or granular porous amorphous carbon. It is mainly made from petroleum coke, wood, coal and other carbon-containing raw materials through activation processing, pyrolysis and other processes. It has acid and alkali resistance, high temperature resistance, Characteristics include developed pore structure. As a functional carbon material, activated carbon has the advantages of chemical and physical dual adsorption. It mainly plays the roles of decontamination and purification, decolorization and refining, disinfection and deodorization. There are many types of activated carbon and there are many classification methods. According to different raw materials, activated carbon can be roughly divided into wood-based activated carbon, coal-based activated carbon, synthetic material activated carbon, other activated carbon, etc.; according to different appearance shapes, activated carbon can be roughly divided into powdered activated carbon and granular activated carbon. Among them, granular activated carbon can be further subdivided into spherical, hollow cylindrical, hollow spherical and irregular-shaped activated carbon.

Activated carbon has a wide range of applications, and is mostly used in sewage treatment, chemical industry, environmental protection, industrial sewage treatment, medicine, agriculture, food and beverages and other fields. At present, food and beverages have become the largest application field of activated carbon, accounting for 27.8% of the market; followed by domestic sewage treatment, accounting for 18.2%; ranking third is the chemical industry, accounting for 15.4%.

In recent years, my country’s urbanization level has been accelerating, the urban population has gradually increased, and domestic water consumption has continued to increase. Coupled with the rapid development of my country’s industrial manufacturing industry, industrial wastewater discharge has continued to increase, resulting in increased water pollution and the need for sewage treatment. Rapid growth. Against this background, the scale of my country’s sewage treatment market has gradually expanded. In 2022, my country’s sewage treatment market size will be 611.45 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.2%. Activated carbon is widely used in the sewage treatment market due to its advantages of high purification, fast adsorption speed, and low cost.

According to the “China Activated Carbon Market Analysis and Development Prospects Research Report 2023-2027” released by the Industrial Research Center, with the growth of my country’s activated carbon Production technology has gradually matured, production costs have gradually reduced, it has been widely used in many fields, and market demand continues to increase. Against this background, my country’s activated carbon production has gradually increased. In 2022, my country’s activated carbon output will reach 1.0714 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 8.9%.

Industry analysts said that my country has a large number of activated carbon companies and has not yet formed a stable competition pattern. The main foreign activated carbon companies include Kureyu Chemical, DuPont, Honeywell, Calgon Carbon, Ingevit, CECA, Albemarle, etc. The main domestic activated carbon companies include Zhixing Carbon, Fujian Yuanli, Chengde Huajing, and Huahui Environmental Protection , Xinsen Carbon Industry, Pustar, Hainan Starlight, etc. Foreign activated carbon companies started earlier, have relatively mature production processes and high value-added products, and are mainly concentrated in the high-end market. The domestic activated carbon market is still in a period of rapid development. Enterprises started late, and there is still a large gap between production technology and foreign enterprises. Product quality is also unstable, and most of them are concentrated in the middle and low-end markets. As my country’s activated carbon companies continue to develop, production technology continues to advance, product quality gradually improves, corporate competitiveness gradually increases, and it will gradually extend to the high-end market in the future.