Randall Clague wrote:
> There is rule of thumb for catalyst loading in the FMC paper. They
> worked with silver and 85% peroxide, and they found that above a
> certain value of lb/sec of peroxide per in^2 of catalyst, they flooded
> the catalyst. I forget that number, but since it's forty years old,
> fairly readily available, and has been discussed here before, we can
> certainly post it again to save Ben a search through the archives.
>
> The same information on ERPS' cermet catalyst would be proprietary and
> inappropriate for a public list. If we knew what it was. :-) All we
> have yet a lower limit, a value at which the engine does not flood,
> which is rather lower than the upper limit for the equivalent catalyst
> bed of silver.
>
> AFAIK, the whole area of catalytic activity is poorly understood in
> terms of physical chemistry. The answers to your questions may not
> exist anywhere. Which for an engineer is damn frustrating, but for a
> scientist is pretty exciting. "LOOK! A research topic! Thankyou
> thankyou thankyou...."
And why I think we should get on with developing our purification
processes and get some 98% HTP and characterize the performance of the
cermet - so at least WE know what the optimum performance is.
Michael
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