The Cothane Process

The Cothane Process. - This is a process for the removal of traces of CO from waste-gas streams and its conversion to pipe-line quality SNG.37 The process depends on the fact that carbon monoxide disproportionates at 200 °C on Ni surfaces according to the Boudouard reaction  

Some reaction also occurs via non-dissociated chemisorbed CO, the all-over reaction in either case being given by  

Hohlein, Proc. Internat. Gas Research Conference, London, ed. L. H. Hirsch. 

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