in 2009. The trend reportedly evolved from the bankruptcy filing by General Motors Corp. It discusses the market demand for palladium, which is used in the manufacturing of catalytic converters. Also noted are the possible effects of a shift toward diesel cars and electric cars....
Palladium is a rare precious metal used in activities such as vehicle manufacturing, electronics, fuel cells, and jewelry making. Much of the world's supply is deployed along with platinum to make catalytic converters for cars and lorries. But thanks to the massive surge in the production of ...
Platinum has extensive industrial uses, including in medical devices like pacemakers and heavy-duty vehicle catalytic converters. Palladium is primarily used in catalytic converters for automobiles, especially in the automotive industry. Historically, platinum has been more expensive due to its rarity and ...
Platinum is used in autocatalysts, both gasoline and diesel, to reduce emissions as well as in computer hard drives, glass manufacturing and petroleum refining, to name a few. Due to its hardness and beauty, platinum is also used in jewelry. Palladium is mainly used in autocatalysts in gasb...
Tsukuba 305-8560, Japan; sh-morimoto@aist.go.jp * Correspondence: yuna.s@rs.tus.ac.jp Received: 5 September 2017; Accepted: 20 October 2017; Published: 25 October 2017 Abstract: Platinum and palladium are used in small but essential quantities in a variety of advanced industrial sectors. Pl...
Two types of impregnation methods can be used, (i) based on the volume of metallic solution with respect to the pore volume of support, namely incipient wetness and (ii) wet impregnation using excess solvent. In the case of incipient wetness, the active component solution volume is equal to...
The sensitive material of MQ-7 is also tin oxide that detects CO concentrations in the air with high sensitivity and outputs its reading as an analogue voltage. However, it cannot be used to detect CO in the automobile exhaust, because of its size and other drawbacks. Together with MQ-7,...