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June 15th, 2009
New catalyst distribution agreement
It is excellent news that Strem Chemicals, the manufacturer of specialty chemicals for research and development, has now formally announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Mintek for their gold catalysts developed through Project AuTEK. The AUROliteTM gold catalysts perform in a variety of applications, such as gas phase CO oxidation, and may be used in respiratory protection devices..
“In terms of low temperature CO oxidation our catalysts outperform the current employed Hopcalite and PGM catalyst technologies, furthermore we see a bright future for their use in liquid phase oxidations and other industrial relevant reactions”, said Jason McPherson, Engineer at Project AuTEK and guest blogger on this website.
Other applications that have been demonstrated include the low temperature oxidation of methane, the selective oxidation of D-lactose to D-lactobionic acid and the aerobic oxidation of aldehydes to esters among others.
Strem will be offering 3 varieties of the AUROliteTMline of gold catalysts, with a 1% loading of gold on aluminum oxide, titanium dioxide and zinc oxide supports. Each catalyst offered will be “commercial grade” as AuTEK has already scaled up its production capacity. The gold itself is deposited on the support via a proprietary process that yields gold nano crystallites of about 2-3nm.
Richard Holliday
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