MagPlasma is pleased to announce that we are the recipient of a Michigan Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Business Accelerator Fund (BAF) award to design and build a rotary plasma reactor to produce activated carbon from biochar. The project will support MagPlasma efforts to develop an advanced manufacturing process to produce activated carbon from renewable plant-based material instead of using coal. These activated carbons are expected to be direct replacements fore currently available activated carbons in a variety of industrial and environmental processes. Studies conducted by our research partner reported that plasma activated carbons have superior properties for removing contaminants from water, air, and other media when used in filtration; has superior properties for energy storage and release when used in supercapacitors; and is environmentally friendly and not dependent on fossil carbon (coal) as the starting material.