| dc.description.abstract | Ultrasonic waves were used to synthesize reduced nickel metal from anhydrous
nickel chloride salt. Anhydrous nickel chloride salt was made by transforming nickel
halide chloride hydrate into hexaaminnickel chloride under vacuum heating for
200°C. his product was combined with tetrahydronaphthalene as the reaction
medium with magnesium reducer and then characterized using XRD and XRF. The
resultant compound was further evaluated for performance in the glycerol
hydrogenolysis reaction for 5 hours at 215°C and 200 psi H2 pressure The reaction
mixture was distilled, and the resulting distillate was analyzed using GC-MS. Only a
trace of nickel metal was generated by the reduction of nickel chloride. The XRD
data indicates a peak in the area of 44.541°, 51.379°, and 96.978°, which were
validated by the library as NiCl2, MgCl2, nickel metal, and magnesium metal. The
nickel composition was determined by XRF analysis to be 71.799%. According to
GC-MS analysis, there was 12.73% acetol, 5.67% 1,2-propanediol, and 8.86% 3-
chloro-1,2-propanediol, which produced the catalysis properties of glycerol
hydrogenolysis. | en_US |
