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The expanded plant was expected to cost $1 billion, and produce an additional 180,000 tons of carbon black, 12 times more than the original Olive Creek plant, and include a place with capacity to produce 275,000 tons of anhydrous ammonia from hydrogen gas annually. [3] [11] In September that year, the original Olive Creek plant began production ...
Worker at carbon black plant, 1942. Carbon black (with subtypes acetylene black, channel black, furnace black, lamp black and thermal black) is a material produced by the incomplete combustion of coal tar, vegetable matter, or petroleum products, including fuel oil, fluid catalytic cracking tar, and ethylene cracking in a limited supply of air.
[7] [8] In 2009, Cabot completed construction of and began operating two additional rubber black production plants at its carbon black plant in Tianjin, China, increasing capacity to 150,000 metric tons. [3] In July 2012, Cabot purchased Norit NV, the largest producer of activated carbon, for US$1.1 billion. [9]
As a result, Cabot's overall carbon black manufacturing capacity in China increases by 25 percent. The addition of Xingtai solidifies Cabot's position as the world's leading producer of carbon black.
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Despite the challenges, the period saw significant growth of demand for carbon black. In 1933, the company acquired a carbon black manufacturing plant in Texas and, together with Continental Oil Company and the Shamrock Oil & Gas Corporation, formed Continental Carbon Company, for which the partner companies supplied natural gas to use as the ...
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In comparison to other reformation methods such as steam reforming and partial oxidation that have carbon dioxide as a by-product, there is no by-product in the Kværner process. The natural gas is efficiently and completely transformed into pure carbon and hydrogen and does not release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.