Process for continuously producing carbon fabric adsorbents and device therefor

A process for continuously producing carbon fiber cloth adsorbents, comprising the steps of:

• a) using, as precursor, a cloth-like cellulose fabric which, after pretreated by washing with water, drying, immersion in chemical solution, force adsorbing and drying, to be rewound into cloth rolls;
• b) leading the pretreated cloth roll precursor by one end thereof into a high temperature reactor from the upper end of the reactor and out from below said reactor at a set rewinding speed to be rewound into rolls;
• c) controlling the temperature from the upper part to the lower part in the reactor body by gradually increasing the temperature from 150.degree. C. to 1200.degree. C. since the high temperature reactor follows an independent multistage temperature control, wherein at the lowest part where it is adjacent the outlet part the temperature is controlled at about 500.degree. C. thereby permitting the precursor that has passed through inside the reactor be heated gradually from the above downwardly so that the precursor is oxidized, carbonized and activated;
• d) while the precursor is being subjected to reaction treatment in the reactor, passing on the lower part of the reactor a reverse water vapor stream opposite the direction of action of the precursor to allow the precursor to be activated and to blow clean micro-particles and tars from the surface of the treated fiber fabric promoting concurrently an upward discharge of the waste heat;
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• e) rewinding the activated carbonized fiber textile, that has been led out from the lower part of the reactor, on to a rewinding roller to obtain a rolled carbon fiber cloth adsorbent.