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Review of hydrogenation

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A brief review of hydrogenation as applied to hardening of vegetable oils, conversion of glycerides or other esters of fatty acids into alcohols of high molecular weights, reduction of carbon monoxide to hydrocarbons or to alcohols, and hydrogenolysis of petroleum. Some mention is made also of the types of catalysts as well as the operating conditions employed in each instance. In addition, a short outline of various methods for the commercial production of hydrogen, and also its purification, is included.

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    Thos C. Whitner

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Whitner, T.C. Review of hydrogenation. Oil Soap 16, 39–44 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02543211

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