This study points out the similarities between gasification char and activated carbon and reviews its successful applications in the field of adsorption. Since only few data on char from biomass gasification are available in the literature, chars collected from six different commercial gasification plants have been characterized by different techniques. Similarities and differences of the six samples have been pointed out and eventually, three samples have been selected as the most suitable for further applications of char as activated carbon. Characterization results have been compared with data available in the literature and finally, effective examples of char applications as adsorbent have been reported.

这项研究指出了气化焦炭和活性炭之间的相似之处，并综述了其在吸附领域的成功应用。由于文献中仅有很少的有关生物质气化的焦炭数据，因此采用了不同的技术对从六种不同的商业气化厂收集的焦炭进行了表征。指出了这六个样品的异同，并最终选择了三个样品作为最适合进一步应用炭作为活性炭的样品。将表征结果与文献中的数据进行了比较，最后，报道了炭作为吸附剂的有效实例。