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• Needle coke is a premium grade petroleum coke, which is used
in manufacturing of graphite electrodes for arc furnaces in steel
industry. A good quality of needle coke is hard and dense mass
formed with a structure of carbon threads or needles oriented in
a single direction
• There are various grades of Needle coke depending on its
properties/ specifications.
• Coal-based needle coke is made from coal tar which appears
during coke production
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Production of Needle Coke requires specific feedstocks,
coking conditions and calcination conditions. The
hardware employed is similar to that of Delayed Coker
unit. Heavier streams available in the refinery of lower
sulfur content can be considered as the feed depending on
the type of hydrocarbon molecules present. The optimum
set of process conditions are decided by the characteristics
of the feedstock through pilot plant experiments.
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Needle cokes are used as a primary material for graphite
electrodes in electric furnace. Coal-based needle coke is
produced from coal tar that appears during coke
production. Compared to petroleum-based needle coke,
coal-based needle coke has excellent physical properties,
such as low co-efficient of thermal expansion and low
electric resistance, along with less spalling and less
breakage.
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Compared to the conventional oil-based

needle coke, the coal-based needle coke has
certain distinguishing characteristics, such as
high heat durability and world's lowest
thermal expansion rate
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The rapid development of the Lithium-ion battery

industry, the market for lithium battery anode materials
in China has grown significantly. A large number of
manufacturers have begun to use needle coke to
produce anode materials because of their low
cost, high gram capacity and overall stable performance.
And the annual consumption volume has been
increasing year by year.
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But due to the late industrialization of needle coke,

China is 30 years later than Japan and
60 years later than the United States in the
development of needle coke production technology.
There is a big gap in Needle Coke production
technology and NC quality between imported needle
coke and domestically-made needle coke.
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