activated carbon
Move over compressed natural gas (CNG), here comes sawdust! Let us explain. Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania, a large, multi-state natural gas utility company, is piloting an experiment of outfitting a Ford F250 that uses an absorbed natural gas system to store natgas used to burn in the truck's engine. The ingenious system was created by a company called Ingevity Corp., and it uses activated carbon, a charcoal-like sand made from sawdust that traps and stores natgas molecules at much lower pressures than the typical CNG tank.
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