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Note
1 * A previous version of this article has been published in Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry.
6.1.3 Coal-Tar Pitch Coke
Tetsusei Fukuda
C‐Chem Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan
6.1.3.1. Introduction
Pitch coke (hereinafter referred to as PC) is a blocky, granular, and powdery, black carbonaceous substance with maximum diameter of approximately 30 mm and with pores or cracks visible to naked eyes as manufactured by the carbonization at temperature equal to or higher than approximately 450 °C of coal‐tar pitch as a raw material withdrawn from the bottom of a distillation column in which coal tar described in Section 6.1.5.3.4 is distilled. PC contains nearly free of ash. This is a big difference from similar