Patent ID: 8110169

Claim:
A carbon alloy material made by a process at temperatures at or below 1300° C. comprising: selecting a carbon containing feed source selected from the group consisting of refuse coals, coal tailings, agricultural wastes, polymeric wastes, lignite, non-coking coals, non-caking coal fines, caking coals, degraded polymers, refuse carbonaceous materials, refuse tires, and municipal solid waste based on the property requirements of the carbon alloy material to be produced; controlling ash content of the feed source; selectively controlling reactivity of the feed source; adding silica to the feed source and homogenizing the feed source, adding to the feed source a feed modifier selected from the group consisting of synthetic and natural hydrocarbon-based materials; molding the feed source and added feed modifier to produce a shaped material, wherein the shape is three dimensional; curing the molded shaped material; adhering and nucleating the carbon in the shaped material; collapsing voids in the shaped carbon material; and cooling of the shaped material to produce the molded carbon alloy.