Carbon is a simple element in the periodic table. Carbon is found in all living things. There is also another role that this element plays apart from it and that is hunting. I bet you probably didn't know this until now, but they have activated charcoal clothes to eliminate odors. There are other uses as well, but we'll get to that later. Activated carbon works through a physical adsorption process, similar to a sponge, only with air instead of water. In the fabric of clothing, carbon creates a bond that traps odor molecules produced by the body. Activated carbon acts like microscopic Velcro. When odorous molecules come into contact with activated carbon, they are trapped in the pores until the product is reactivated. Reactivation is achieved by placing the activated carbon fabric in a dryer where the heat from the dryer will break the bond with the odorous compounds. The odorous compounds are released and the activated carbon is practically as good as new. Organic pollutants, like those present in human body odors that frighten sensitive wildlife, get stuck in the many layers of coal when they encounter them. This is one of the reasons why activated carbon is used in water treatment plants around the world. Typically, the water is filtered through a bed of carbon, much like the carbon filter in your Brita pitcher, and the remaining small carbon particles are filtered out of the water, leaving the water free of contaminants . Activated carbon is also used in many other odor reduction applications, including commercial applications. Activated carbons were traditionally in the form of powder or granules. Only in recent decades has the third form, activated carbon fiber/fabric (ACF), been successively developed. AC...... middle of paper ......o remove the carbonized organic residues formed in the porous structure in the previous step and expose the porous carbon structure by regenerating its original surface characteristics. After treatment, the adsorption column can be reused. By thermal adsorption-regeneration cycle, between 5 and 15% of the carbon bed is burned, which leads to a loss of adsorption capacity. Thermal regeneration is a high energy process due to the high temperatures required, making it an expensive process both energetically and commercially. Plants that rely on thermal regeneration of activated carbon must be of a certain size before it is economically viable to have regeneration facilities on site. As a result, it is common for small waste processing sites to ship their activated carbon cores to a specialized facility for regeneration, thereby increasing the already large carbon footprint of the process...