Degussa Aktiengesellschaft

Hermann Renner

Rainer Schlodder

Karlheinz Kleiss

Hans Herzog

The regeneration of platinum group metal suspension catalysts involves a dissolution step using HCl and an oxidant, such as Clor HO, and a precipitating step carried out in the presence of a reducing agent, especially an aldehyde, an HCOOH or a formiate. According to the invention, the content of non-platinum metals which are dragged into the catalyst as a result of the method can be reduced by carrying out the precipitation in the presence of a chelate complexing agent for one or more metals selected from the series of metals of groups 2a, 3a, 4a of the periodic table and of the transition elements without elements of the platinum group.

Method for regenerating platinum catalysts

There is described a process for the recovery of noble metals from dilute aqueous or non-aqueous solution which contain salts of non-noble metals and/or difficulty volatile inorganic or organic compounds, which is generally usable, simple to carry out and supplies high yields of noble metals. There is added to the noble metal solution elemental tellurium or a reducible tellurium compound at a temperature of 100.degree. to 250.degree. C. and the precipitate formed worked up in known manner.

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