De Palmenaer A., Wortberg G., Drissen F., Seide G., Gries T., 2015, Production of Polyethylene Based Carbon Fibres, Chemical Engineering Transactions, 43, 1699-1704.
Polyolefins, especially polyethylene, have great potential as an alternative precursor used for carbon fibre production. Polyethylene can be processed in the economic melt spinning process. In this paper, the melt- spinning process of such polyethylene precursors and their conversion to carbon fibres in a chemical stabilization (sulfonation) and carbonization process are presented. Furthermore, the results of the chemical stabilization and the carbonization are discussed.
