Abstract: A carbon porous body has a micropore volume, calculated from an ?s plot analysis of a nitrogen adsorption isotherm at a temperature of 77 K, of 0.1 cm3/g or less, the micropore volume being smaller than a mesopore volume calculated by subtracting the micropore volume from a nitrogen adsorption amount at a nitrogen relative pressure P/P0 of 0.97 on the nitrogen adsorption isotherm, wherein a nitrogen adsorption amount at a nitrogen relative pressure P/P0 of 0.5 on the nitrogen adsorption isotherm is within a range of 500 cm3 (STP)/g or less, and a nitrogen adsorption amount at a nitrogen relative pressure P/P0 of 0.85 on the nitrogen adsorption isotherm is within a range of 600 cm3 (STP)/g or more and 1100 cm3 (STP)/g or less.

Abstract: Achieved is an electricity storage device having a low internal resistance and a high energy density. In a pore distribution, which is obtained for a carbon material using a BJH method and is plotted on a graph with a pore diameter D on the abscissa and a derivative ?V/?D of a pore volume per unit mass or unit volume with respect to the pore diameter D on the ordinate, a ratio M1/M2 of the maximum value M1 of the derivative ?V/?D in an interval of the pore diameter D from 10 to 100 nm with respect to the maximum value M2 of the derivative ?V/?D in an interval of the pore diameter D from 2 to 10 nm is 1.5 or more.

Abstract: Achieved is an electricity storage device having a low internal resistance and a high energy density. In a pore distribution, which is obtained for a carbon material using a BJH method and is plotted on a graph with a pore diameter D on the abscissa and a derivative ?V/?D of a pore volume per unit mass or unit volume with respect to the pore diameter D on the ordinate, a ratio M1/M2 of the maximum value M1 of the derivative ?V/?D in an interval of the pore diameter D from 10 to 100 nm with respect to the maximum value M2 of the derivative ?V/?D in an interval of the pore diameter D from 2 to 10 nm is 1.5 or more.

Abstract: Achieved is an electricity storage device having a low internal resistance and a high energy density. In a pore distribution, which is obtained for a carbon material using a BJH method and is plotted on a graph with a pore diameter D on the abscissa and a derivative ?V/?D of a pore volume per unit mass or unit volume with respect to the pore diameter D on the ordinate, a ratio M1/M2 of the maximum value M1 of the derivative ?V/?D in an interval of the pore diameter D from 10 to 100 nm with respect to the maximum value M2 of the derivative ?V/?D in an interval of the pore diameter D from 2 to 10 nm is 1.5 or more.

Abstract: A carbonaceous material used as a polarizable active material in an electric double layer capacitor is characterized in that, when measured by an electron spin resonance method without adding any additives, the obtained peak line width is 2 mT or less, and the peak intensity, which is converted into a number of unpaired electrons per 1 g, is 1×1019 or more. A method for producing the carbonaceous material includes removing residual functional groups from the carbonaceous material so that reactions between the residual functional groups and the electrolytic liquid are suppressed when forming a capacitor.

Abstract: A method for preparing a carbon material for an electrode is provided that comprises a step for activating a mixture of a carbonous main material and a conductive additive.

Abstract: Achieved is an electricity storage device having a low internal resistance and a high energy density. In a pore distribution, which is obtained for a carbon material using a BJH method and is plotted on a graph with a pore diameter D on the abscissa and a derivative ?V/?D of a pore volume per unit mass or unit volume with respect to the pore diameter D on the ordinate, a ratio M1/M2 of the maximum value M1 of the derivative ?V/?D in an interval of the pore diameter D from 10 to 100 nm with respect to the maximum value M2 of the derivative ?V/?D in an interval of the pore diameter D from 2 to 10 nm is 1.5 or more.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for processing an exhaust gas containing an alkaline substance, the exhaust gas being emitted when activating a carbon material with an alkaline substance. The apparatus includes a humidified-gas preparing device for preparing a humidified gas, which exhibits a dew point of 25° C. or more; a gas mixing device for mixing the humidified gas with the exhaust gas at a temperature equal to or greater than the dewpoint of the humidified gas, thereby generating a hydroxide of metallic alkali; and a trapping device for trapping the generated hydroxide out of the mixture gas of the humidified gas and the exhaust gas.

Abstract: A method for preparing a carbon material for an electrode is provided that comprises a step for activating a mixture of a carbonous main material and a conductive additive.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for processing an exhaust gas containing an alkaline substance, the exhaust gas being emitted when activating a carbon material with an alkaline substance. The apparatus includes a humidified-gas preparing device for preparing a humidified gas, which exhibits a dew point of 25° C. or more; a gas mixing device for mixing the humidified gas with the exhaust gas at a temperature equal to or greater than the dewpoint of the humidified gas, thereby generating a hydroxide of metallic alkali; and a trapping device for trapping the generated hydroxide out of the mixture gas of the humidified gas and the exhaust gas.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing an exhaust gas containing an alkaline substance, the exhaust gas being emitted when activating a carbon material with an alkaline substance. The method includes the steps of preparing a humidified gas, which exhibits a dew point of 25° C. or more, by mixing an inert gas with water vapor, generating a hydroxide of metallic alkali by mixing the humidified gas with the exhaust gas; and trapping the generated hydroxide out of the mixture gas of the humidified gas and the exhaust gas.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an electric double layer capacitor carbon material and an electric double layer capacitor which can exhibit excellent charge/discharge characteristics. The carbon material for electric double layer capacitors in accordance with the present invention is characterized in having the BET specific surface area in a range of 300-1000 m2/g, the carbon interlayer distance in a range of 0.360-0.380 nm and the carbon strength of 2000 cps or more. This enables to form an electric double layer capacitor having a high capacitance and a low internal resistance. The electric double layer capacitor of the present invention utilizes this carbon material as a polarizable active material. The capacitor of the present invention exhibits a high capacitance and a low internal resistance.

Abstract: To provide a carbonaceous material for electric double layer capacitor, carbonaceous material which demonstrates a good charge/discharge characteristic, when it makes an electric double layer capacitor. A carbonaceous material according to the present invention for electric double layer capacitor is used as a polarizable active material in electric double layer capacitor, and is characterized in that, when measuring it by an electron spin resonance method without adding any additive thereto, the obtained peak line width is 2 mT or less, and in that the peak intensity, which is converted into a number of unpaired electron per 1 g, is 1×1019 or more.

Abstract: To provide a carbon material from which lithium battery whose discharge capacity is large and which is good in terms of output characteristic is obtainable. A carbon material according to the present invention for lithium battery is characterized in that a BET specific surface areas is 10-1,000 m2/g; a carbon interlayer distance is 0.350-0.380 nm; and a carbon intensity is 2,000 cps or more. In the carbon material according to the present invention for lithium battery, a high output and a low retention are obtainable when forming lithium battery.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for processing an exhaust gas containing an alkaline substance, the exhaust gas being emitted when activating a carbon material with an alkaline substance. The method includes the steps of preparing a humidified gas, which exhibits a dew point of 25° C. or more, by mixing an inert gas with water vapor, generating a hydroxide of metallic alkali by mixing the humidified gas with the exhaust gas; and trapping the generated hydroxide out of the mixture gas of the humidified gas and the exhaust gas.