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Article: French Inventors Develop Carbon Precursor Material Transformation System
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 16, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 16 -- Jean-Etienne Loncle of Le Haillan, France, and Pascal Pothier of Le Pian Medoc, France, have developed a method for obtaining carbon bodies.
An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "The method comprises a first stage of transforming carbon precursor material into carbon by heating, with the resulting gaseous effluent being extracted continuously, and a second stage of high temperature heat treatment under low pressure with the resulting gaseous effluent being extracted continuously. The first and second stages are performed one after the other in the same oven by proceeding, after the end of the first stage, with ...