The
carbonization product of high-boiling hydrocarbon fractions (heavy residues of petroleum or coal
processing) produced by the fluid
coking process.
Note:
Fluid
coke consists of spherulitic grains with a spherical layer structure and is generally
less graphitizable than
delayed coke. Therefore, it is not suitable as
filler coke for
polygranular graphite products and is also less suitable for polycrystalline carbon products. Because of
its isotropy it is less suitable to produce an anisotropic
synthetic graphite. All
cokes contain a fraction of matter that can be released as volatiles during heat treatment.
This
mass fraction, the so-called volatile matter, is in the case of fluid
coke about 6 wt.%.
Source:
PAC, 1995, 67, 473
(Recommended terminology for the description of carbon as a solid (IUPAC Recommendations
1995))
on page 489
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