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carbon anodes, and refractory materials. Further, modern electronics would not exist without the help of graphite materials during their production. Finally, stiff and lightweight structures can be obtained with carbon fiber reinforced composites. Bulk materials like carbon blacks are essential for automotive tires and for paints and in the rubber industry. Activated carbon materials help keep our environment clean. Mentioning all the other plentiful applications would go beyond the scope.

      With nanoscaled allotropes, the element carbon is just recently reinventing itself. Two Nobel Prizes were granted for fullerenes and graphenes. Prominent industrial applications are expected to follow.

      However, in general the knowledge about industrial carbon and graphite materials is restricted to a small community of experts. In fact, information about their raw materials, production, and applications are not easily available in one comprehensive compendium. Information has to be gathered from various sources. For many decades, the Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Technical Chemistry has been one of these sources.

      Thus, the editors combined updated single existing chapters of the Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Technical Chemistry to the backbone of one comprehensive book about technical carbon and graphite materials. New chapters have been added to complete the overview.

      The content of the book is completed by the IUPAC nomenclature on carbon as a solid.

      This book is addressed to a widened circle of interested people from academia, students, and commercial and technical employees in various industries.

      The editors thank all authors for their support and the publisher for his uncomplaining cooperation.

      The Editors, June 2018

       Hubert Jäger

       Wilhelm Frohs

       Hubert Jäger1, Wilhelm Frohs2, and Tilo Hauke2

       1 Technische Universität Dresden, Institute of Lightweigth Engineering and Polymer Technology (ILK), Hohlbein Street 3, Dresden, 01307, Germany

       2 SGL Carbon GmbH, Werner‐von‐Siemens‐Street 18, 86405 Meitingen, Germany

      This chapter provides information about the industrial importance of various carbon and graphite materials. Carbon and graphite materials are mostly unknown to the public. They are obvious in few consumer products only, such as lead pencils, or in sporting goods as carbon fibers, for example.

      New forms of carbon, the carbon nanomaterials, created huge expectations but are currently not produced in an industrial scale with the exception of multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). With the recent demonstration of the potential of graphene, a single graphite layer, in microelectronic circuits, we might see the beginning of a new market for carbon materials.

Schematic illustration of carbon materials and their market value.

      Traditional carbon materials that are considered in this chapter are:

       Graphite electrodes for melting of steel scrap.

       Carbon electrodes for silicon production.

       Cathodes for the aluminum electrolysis.

       Furnace linings for blast furnaces.

       Fine‐grained graphite for silicon production, machining, and others.

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