Propellant waste was impregnated on the surface of activated carbon fiber and heat-treated at different temperature to introduce newly developed functional groups on the ACF surface. Functional groups of nitrogen and oxygen such as pyridine, pyridone, pyrrol, lacton and carboxyl were newly introduced on the surface of modified activated carbon fiber. The porosity, specific surface area, and morphology of those modified ACFs were changed as increasing the heat-treated temperature from 200 to 500℃. The optimum heat-treatment temperature was suggested to 500℃, because lower temperature given rise to the decrease of specific surface area and higher temperature resulted in the decrease of weight loss. Propellant waste can be used as an useful surface modifier to porous carbons.

• Keun-Sig Yoon(Defense Agency for Technology and Quality)
• Dae-Ung Pyo(Department of Chemical Engineering, Chungnam National University)
• Young-Seak Lee(Department of Chemical Engineering, Chungnam National University)
• Seung-Kon Ryu(Department of Chemical Engineering, Chungnam National University)
• Xiao Ping Yang(The Key Lab. of Beijing City on Preparation and Processing of Novel Polymer Materials, Beijing University of Chemical Engineering)