Coconut Shell Charcoal

Shell Charcoal is obtained by burning the shell of fully matured coconuts with a limited supply of air so that they do not burn away to ash but are only carbonized. Making shell charcoal from coconut shells has grown to be a significant economic and commercial endeavour. Furthermore, due to its intrinsic importance as a raw material for the production of activated carbon, coconut shell charcoal, which was a relatively minor product in the past, has now developed into a widespread commercial commodity.

Good coconut shell charcoal is uniformly dark and snaps with a clean shining fracture and produces a metallic sound, when dropped on hard ground. While over burned shells are friable and the fracture surface sounds dull when dropped and readily crumbles, under burned shells do not make a metallic sound and have a clean fracture. Of all the lignaceous charcoals, coconut shell charcoal has the highest concentration of fixed carbons. Good charcoal typically has moisture of 6.24%, volatiles of 5.46%, ash of 0.54%, and fixed carbon of 87.76%