Nickel alloy synthesis catalysts

Virtually all commercial HPHT synthesis of diamond uses iron, nickel, cobalt, manganese, chromium, and their alloys as catalyst-solvents. However, many other metals ean catalyze graphite-to-diamond formation at higher temperatures and pressures, as can water, silicates, and other minerals that are more akin to the environment in which natural diamonds grow in the earth. 

Five main types of CNFs, platelet (P-CNF), tubular (T-CNF), thick herringbone (thick FI-CNF), thin herringbone (thin H-CNF) and very thin herringbone (very thin FI-CNF) vere selectively prepared and examined as supports of anode catalysts for DMFCs. P-CNF was synthesized from carbon monoxide over a pure iron catalyst at 600 °C, whereas thick H-CNF was obtained from ethylene over a copper-nickel catalyst [Cu-Ni (2 8 w/w)]. An Fe-Ni alloy (6 4 w/w) was used for the selective synthesis of T-CNFs from carbon monoxide gas at 650 °C [15, 16]. 

The mixed steam/feedstock mixture is then passed to the tubular reformer where it is reformed to synthesis gas over a nickel catalyst contained in high alloy tubes. 

Description The feedstock (natural gas as an example) is desulfurized, mixed with steam and converted into synthesis gas over nickel catalyst at approximately 40 bar and 800°C to 850°C in the primary reformer. The Uhde steam reformer is a top-fired reformer with tubes made of centrifugal high alloy steel and a proprietary "cold outlet manifold" system, which enhances reliability. 

Tungsten alloyed with nickel, cobalt, or rhodium in thin layers on alumina supports, also sulfided, is used on an industrial scale as a catalyst in crude oil processing (hydrotreating, hydrocracking, reforming, hydrodesulfurization, and hydrodenitrogenation), as well as in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (alcohol formation from CO + H2). 

Alcan 756 C.l. 77775 Carbonyl nickel powder CCRIS 427 EINECS 231-111-4 EL12 Fibrex Fibrex P HSDB 1096 Ni 0901-S Ni 270 Ni 4303T Nichel Nickel 200 Nickel 201 Nickel 205 Nickel 207 Nickel 270 Nickel catalyst Nickel compounds Nickel, elemental Nickel, elemental/metal Nickel particles Nickel sponge NP 2 Raney alloy Raney nickel RCH 55/5. Metallic element, used in electroplating, as a hydrogenation catalyst and in iron- and copper-based alloys. Metal mp = 1453° bp (calc) = 2732° d= 8.908. Atomergic Chemetals Inco, Europe Lancaster Synthesis Co. Sigma-Aldrich Fine Chem. 

There are other ways of preparing catalysts. The iron catalyst used for ammonia synthesis is made by fusion of naturally occurring magnetite, Fes04, with small amounts of potassium carbonate, alumina, and other ingredients. The best known example of a metal catalyst prepared by leaching is Raney nickel, developed by Raney in 1925. The catalyst is prepared from a nickel-aluminum alloy by leaching out much of the aluminum with caustic solution to leave behind a porous nickel... 

Raney nickel A porous solid catalyst made from an activated alloy of nickel and aluminium. The nickel is the catalytic metal with the aluminium as the structural support It was developed by American mechanical engineer Murray Raney (1885-1966) in 1926 for the hydrogenation of vegetable oil and is now used in hydrogenation reactions in various forms of organic synthesis. It is widely used as an industrial catalyst for the conversion of olefins and acetylenes to paraffins, nitriles, and nifro compounds to amines, and benzene to cyclohexane amongst others. 

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