Activated carbon is used for many different purposes. You may use it to purify drinking water, to remove offensive odors from the air, or to remove caffeine from coffee. You can also use activated carbon as a filter in aquariums and other small containers of water.
Use As Cleaning Agents
People have even found ways to make money by putting activated carbon in products like toothpaste and toilet bowl cleaners. It has been proven that activated carbon adsorbs not only have bad tastes and odors but also some micro-organisms (viruses, bacteria).
Use As Medicine
Activated carbon is very common in medicine – it is included into tablets, medicines, suppositories due to its adsorptive properties against toxins or poisons contained in them. The most frequently applied
In Aquariums
Activated Carbon is quite useful and is used in Aquariums to remove the poisonous substances and impurities from aquarium water. As well as purifying drinking water, Activated Carbon filters are also effective for filtering air and natural gas. It effectively removes chlorine, taste, odors (mildew smell), color, rust, turbidity or suspended particles present in the liquid.
Benefits of activated carbon
Air Purification
The porous shell of a coconut traps pollutants like dust and harmful chemicals when it is thrown into the garbage. These pollutants are later on released out into the air. The shells provide a home for microorganisms that break down these hazardous compounds, converting them into harmless substances.
Water Filtration
The thing that makes coconut shell charcoal so effective at filtering water is its large surface area. Each piece of coconut shell has thousands of tiny pores (called “micropores”) that act like microscopic filters. This means that coconut shells are very good at removing molecules which are smaller than two nanometers in size [
Remove The Bad Odor In Skin
If you’re having trouble with underarm or foot odor, activated charcoal will block the smell so that you don’t need to worry about embarrassing smells ruining your day. It will not only dull the smell, it can also absorb the sweat that causes body odor from forming in the first place! You’ll be overwhelmed to know about how well this works for sweaty feet, as well!
Relief In Stomach
Coconut shell charcoal (CCS) is widely used as a home remedy for treating constipation and gastrointestinal disorders, including diarrhea. There are two brands of CCS commercially available in India, which are locally manufactured. They are Revon CCS and Natural Activated Charcoal Capsule (NACC).
Control of Cholesterol
This type of charcoal contains Cholestin which helps in removing the excess cholesterol and other toxic particles from the body. This particular ingredient is extracted from the outer shell of coconut shells, and has been clinically proven to help in reducing cholesterol levels.
Rejuvenation Effect
The rejuvenation of an activated carbon is based on changing the surface properties of active carbons. In chemical process engineering and fields ranging from petrochemicals to environmental pollution, for example, it is known that the aging of a chemical process unit not only means that physical but also chemical properties change with time (e.g., the concentration of gas).