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The Direct Liquefaction of Wood Using Nickel Catalysts... 

Boocock, D.G.B., Mackay, D., and Franco, H., The Production of Synthetic Liquids from Wood Using a Modified Nickel Catalyst , Paper accepted for presentation at 29th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Sarnia, Ontario, 30 Sept. -3 Oct. 1979. 

Oxine copper is an organometallic preservative comprising 10% copper-8-quinolinolate and 10% nickel-2-ethylhexoate that offers protection against sapstain and moulds. It has low mammalian toxicity. The treated wood has a greenish brown colour and little or no odour. Of particular interest, when used alone it is permitted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for treatment of wood used in direct contact with food. 

Xylitol, a sugar alcohol, has potential use as a natural food sweetener, a dental caries reducer and a sugar substitute for diabetics. It is produced by chemical reduction in alkaline conditions of the xylose derived mainly from wood hydrolyzate (169). The recovery of xylitol from the xylan fraction is about 50-60% or 8-15% of the raw material employed. Drawbacks of the chemical process are the requirements of high pressure (up to 50 atm) and tenq>erature (80-140°C), use of an expensive catalyst (Raney-Nickel) and use of extensive separation and purification steps to remove the by-products that are mainly derived from the hemicellulose hydrolyzate (770). The bulk of xylitol produced is consumed in various food products such as chewing gum, candy, soft drinks and ice cream. It gives a pleasant cool and fresh sensation due to its high negative heat of solution. 

Salts of neodecanoic acid have been used in the preparation of supported catalysts, such as silver neodecanoate for the preparation of ethylene oxide catalysts (119), and the nickel soap in the preparation of a hydrogenation catalyst (120). Metal neodecanoates, such as magnesium, lead, calcium, and zinc, are used to improve the adherence of plasticized poly(vinyl butyral) sheet to safety glass in car windshields (121). Platinum complexes using neodecanoic acid have been studied for antitumor activity (122). Neodecanoic acid and its esters are used in cosmetics as emoUients, emulsifiers, and solubilizers (77,123,124). Zinc or copper salts of neoacids are used as preservatives for wood (125). 

Table 1.3 shows a rough breakdown of material prices. Materials for large-scale structural use - wood, cement and concrete, and structural steel - cost between UK 50 and UK 500 (US 75 and US 750) per tonne. There are many materials which have all the other properties required of a structural material - nickel or titanium, for example - but their use in this application is eliminated by their price. 

About 20% of the total import bill of a country like Britain is spent on engineering materials. Table 2.2 shows how this spend is distributed. Iron and steel, and the raw materials used to make them, account for about a quarter of it. Next are wood and lumber - still widely used in light construction. More than a quarter is spent on the metals copper, silver, aluminium and nickel. All polymers taken together, including rubber, account for little more than 10%. If we include the further metals zinc, lead, tin, tungsten and mercury, the list accounts for 99% of all the money spent abroad on materials, and we can safely ignore the contribution of materials which do not appear on it. 

Elastomers, plastics, fabrics, wood and metals can be joined with themselves and with each other using nitrile rubber/epoxy resin blends cured with amines and/or acidic agents. Ethylene-propylene vulcanizates can also be joined using blends of carboxylated nitrile rubber, epoxy resin and a reactive metal filler (copper, nickel, cobalt). However, one of the largest areas of use of nitrile rubber modified epoxy systems is in the printed circuit board area [12]. 

Boric acid is used as an antiseptic in mouthwashes, eye washes, and ointments a preservative in natural products to protect wood against insect damage in washing citrus fruits as a catalyst in hydrocarbon oxidation as a flame retardant in cellulose insulation in nickel electroplating baths and as a buffer in ammonia analysis of wastewaters hy acid titration. 

The Lewis ENVIRO-CLEAN process removes and recovers metals such as chromium, copper, nickel, mercury, lead, zinc, iron, and cadmium and has effectively demonstrated that it can treat a matrix of multiple metals in a single stream with positive results. The process treats wastes from wood preserving, metal finishing, mining, surface and groundwaters. The two-step process uses granular-activated carbon and electrolytic metal recovery to yield a salable metallic by-product. 

Early human civilizations used stone, bone, and wood for objects. Approximately ten thousand years ago, metals first appeared. The first metals used were those found in their native form, or in a pure, uncombined state. Most metals today are acquired from an ore containing the metal in combination with other elements such as oxygen. The existence of native metals is rare, and only a few metals exist in native form. Iron and nickel were available in limited supply from meteorites. The first metals utilized widely by humans were copper, silver, and gold. Pure nuggets of these metals were pounded, in a process known as cold hammering, with stones into various shapes used for weapons, jewelry, art, and various domestic implements. Eventually, smiths discovered if a metal was heated it could be shaped more easily. The heating process is known as annealing. Because the supply of native metals was limited, metal items symbolized wealth and status for those who possessed them. 

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This is a noncyclic pathway that also results in the fixation of two molecules of C02 to form acetyl-CoA. It was elucidated by Wood, Ljungdahl, Thauer and others as a pathway which is used by acetogenic bacteria to synthesize acetate from C02 in their energy metabolism [21]. The acetyl-CoA pathway resembles the Monsanto process of acetate synthesis from CO and methanol, with one molecule of C02 being reduced to the level of methyltetrahydropterin, while another C02 molecule is reduced to the level of carbon monoxide in the reaction catalyzed by the nickel-dependent carbon monoxide dehydrogenase (Figure 3.3). 

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