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Applications of Auger and ESCA spectroscopies

Conference · · 72nd AIChE Annu. Meet. Prepr.; (United States)
OSTI ID:6189945

A discussion of the principles, capabilities, and limitations of Auger electron spectroscopy (AES) and ESCA includes examples in which AES is used to detect surface lead poisoning of commercial copper catalysts for producing methylchlorosilanes from methyl chloride and silicon and surface poisoning by iron of a commercial palladium-alumina catalyst for selective hydrogenation of diolefins in an olefin-aromatic-alkane stream, ESCA is used to correlate the catalytic activity of a rhodium-carbon catalyst with the oxide-metal ratio, and AES, ESCA, and scanning Auger microprobe analysis are combined to show that the deactivation of a molybdena-alumina catalyst used for desulfurizing gas streams from coal gasification is caused by surface coke formation.

Research Organization:
Union Carbide Corp.
OSTI ID:
6189945
Report Number(s):
CONF-791108-
Journal Information:
72nd AIChE Annu. Meet. Prepr.; (United States), Journal Name: 72nd AIChE Annu. Meet. Prepr.; (United States) Vol. 23A
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English