Ingeneious palladium idea, or just foolishness?
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]
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