Original scientific paper

The Catalytic Activity of Copper, Silver and Goldin Dehydrogenations

I. Brihta ; Institute for Industrial Research, Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia
P. Luetić ; Institute for Industrial Research, Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia

Abstract

The activation energies of the catalytic dehydrogenation of formic acid and ethanol have been determined for metals of the lb group (Cu, Ag and Au). The results given in Tables I and II show that the catalytic mechanism does not depend only on the free energy levels of s-electrons of these metals. For the dehydrogenation of ethanol on copper-silver mixtures an S-shaped curve was obtained having a horizontal part between 20 and 60 atomic % Cu.

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Hrčak ID:

246323

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/246323

Publication date:

30.12.1957.

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