Basf Aktiengesellschaft

Franz Haas

Gerold Schreyer

Gerhard Janisch

The surfaces of particulate adsorbents are consolidated by a process in which the adsorbent is impregnated with a cationic aqueous polymer solution and then treated with an anionic aqueous dispersion of a polymer having a softening point of from 60.degree. to 150.degree. C. and the materials are dried together.

Consolidation of the surfaces of particulate adsorbents

A process for consolidating the surface of a granular adsorbent, wherein thermoplastic crosslinkable bonding fibers are applied from aqueous suspension, the water taken up by the adsorbent is evaporated off and the bonding fibers adhering to the surface of the adsorbent are crosslinked by heating. The adsorbent thus treated has virtually the same adsorption and desorption properties as the untreated adsorbent, but exhibits substantially improved abrasion resistance.

Consolidating the surface of a granular adsorbent

A process for consolidating the surface of a granular adsorbent, wherein a water-containing adsorbent, which has taken up 25-70% by weight of the maximum possible amount of water, is heated to a temperature at which the water taken up evaporates, and is at the same time treated with an aqueous dispersion of a self-crosslinking copolymer, and the adsorbent thus coated is heated to a temperature at which the copolymer crosslinks. The coated adsorbent has virtually the same adsorption and desorption properties as the untreated adsorbent, but in contrast exhibits substantially improved abrasion resistance.

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