Intergalactic_Captain - 15-2-2007 at 19:10
I've been searching high and low for a couple weeks for a simple way to extract palladium from used catalytic converters. I'd really rather not use
some expensive combination of acids, despite the fact that the value of palladium justifies it. I don't really need the metal per se, just as a
catalyst.
Thinking about palladium on charcoal, is it the large surface area full of palladium particles or the large amount of tiny palladium particles that
does the job? A catalytic converter is basically ceramic a honeycomb of tiny tubes embedded with palladium particles. If I just smashed it up,
screened it for dust and saved the chunks of an arbitrarily chosen size, would they function anything like Pd/C in a catalytic hydrogenation?
[Edited on 2-16-07 by Intergalactic_Captain]
BromicAcid - 15-2-2007 at 19:15
There is some information on that idea here:
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=5700&a...