Yes, My Precious

By: Kevin M. Beirne

The right refiner can add profits and ensure peace of mind when recovering and refining spent precious metal catalysts from catalytic abatement and reaction processes.

Most manufacturing and processing organizations are concerned with pollution abatement in one form or another, and many use complex and costly equipment to safely and legally exhaust noxious, toxic or odoriferous emissions.

Some of these systems incorporate catalytic oxidizers and catalytic reactors that use precious metal-bearing catalysts designed to eliminate virtually all emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). Typical facilities that employ catalytic abatement technologies include pharmaceutical, chemical, petrochemical, painting/coating and hydrocarbon processing firms, among others. Precious metal-bearing catalysts are also used to facilitate process reactions, especially by chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and hydrocarbon industries.