Studies on the Activity and Selectivity of the Copper-Chromium-Manganese Oxide Catalysts. X.

On the Hydrogenation of the Small Amount of Acetylene contained in a Mixture of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide by the Copper-Chromium-Manganese Oxide Calatysts

Abstract

The authors have studied on the hydrogenation of acetylene contained in a small amount in a mixed gas of hydrogen and carbon monoxide (H₂ : CO=2 : 1) using copper-chromium-manganese oxide catalyst of granular form.
It is found that the acetylene is completely hydrogenated to ethylene, ethane and other hydrocarbons, such as butene and but butane, none of the carbon monoxide being hydrogenated to methane at the temperatures between 80200°C and S.V. (space velocity) 1, 000 to the volume of the catalyst.