A set of researchers led by Thapaliya developed a benchtop electrochemical process for converting these coal byproducts to ...

Battery-grade synthetic graphite is made from heat-treating at very high temperatures a blend of lower purity carbon-based raw materials with coal tar pitch, petroleum coke or oil. This creates a ...

But ORNL’s process takes impurities in coal and removes them to create material that is suitable for a battery anode. Other methods to create synthetic graphite exist, but require more time ...

Through a new process that turns coal waste ... byproducts into graphite inside an electrochemical reactor, according to the lab. Unlike conventional methods for creating synthetic graphite ...

So ended a 90-year-old search for a method of manufacturing a synthetic for the drug that ... The formula showed that quinine could be made from coal tar. To the Factory. Doing it was no small ...

This market is fueled by the rising need for coal tar pitch in consumption sectors, which include manufacturing aluminum, producing graphite electrodes and carbon anodes, roofing by bitumen ...

American automotive company, General Motors (GM), found a solution to the shortage after signing a multi-year agreement with Norway’s Vianode to supply synthetic ... coal, which is both abundant and ...

China accounts for more than 70% of global supply of both natural, mined graphite and the synthetic variety, made from petroleum coke or coal tar, by-products of oil and coal processing.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- This action, with a focus on expansion of coal technology for battery materials, synthetic graphite and carbon fibers, can strengthen national ...