Separation Methods for Carbon Nanotubes and Amorphous Carbon

This internship project has been initiated to support an emerging technology for hydrogen production that is being developed by Atlantic Hydrogen, a Fredericton, NB-based company conducting research into a technology to produce hydrogen from natural gas without the generation of greenhouse gases. This emerging technology produces nanoscale carbon as a mixture of carbon nanotubes, Fullerenes and amorphous carbon. This research will develop methods to separate the highly valuable nanotubes and Fullerenes from the amorphous carbon. These methods will, initially, be scaled to laboratory separations with later work aimed at the development of a commercially-viable separation technology.

Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Thomas Whidden

Student:

Wen Wen Niu

Partner:

Atlantic Hydrogen Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

University of New Brunswick