Inco Limited

The International Nickel Company, Inc.

Kenneth R Dymock

Malcolm C Bell

Victor A Ettel

Juraj Babjak

A nonaqueous process of hydrogenating and liquefying solid carbonaceous material which includes heating the material in contact with a catalyst derived from FE(CO).sub.9 in the presence of hydrogen.

Non-aqueous hydrogenation of solid carbonaceous material

Discloses that in the hydrogenation of liquid, carbonaceous crude material such as bitumen and other heavy oils, a catalyst derived from the addition of Fe.sub.2 (CO).sub.9 is advantageously used to provide a superior yield of distillable oils compared to prior practice.

Hydrogenation of carbonaceous material

A process for separating nickel and cobalt present in a sulfate solution includes using a cationic extractant to extract both metals, treating the loaded cationic extractant with an aqueous chloride or thiocyanate solution to back-extract the cobalt and thereafter recovering the cobalt from the back-extraction aqueous solution by solvent extraction or ion exchange with an anionic extractant.

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