PETROGRAPHIC RESEARCH APPLIED TO CARBON MATERIALS

The major objectives of this review paper are: to emphasize the aspects concerning Roumanian contribution during the last few decades on different manufacturing processes of carbon materials & products and to reveal the application of petrographic researches in case of carbon materials. Some representative carbon materials were sampled as: raw materials, intermediary and end products, with a special reference to the optical properties determined by their structural composition and texture. In the carbon materials manufacturing, the physical-chemical characteristics that depend on the type of optical properties (petrographic composition) of the raw materials and processing parameters, prove a great impact on the products performances.