Platinum Metals Review - Volume 2, Issue 1, 1958

The manufacture of hydrocyanic acid by the catalytic combination of methane, ammonia and air has increased remarkably in recent years. Some of the features of this process, particularly the variety of platinum metal catalysts employed in it, are surveyed in this article.

Catalytic reforming holds a key position in the overall operations of European petroleum refiners. The British Petroleum Company employs the platforming process at many of its refineries, and by skilled operation and the use of a new catalyst it has demonstrated how standard equipment operates economically at high severity. This article reviews the “100 octane plus” operations at the Kent refinery, which takes its catalyst supplies from U.K. manufacturing facilities specially set up in the interests of licencees of the process.