Uranium oxide as a catalyst for easily breaking dioxins and PCBs.

[Emmanuel de Broux <edebroux@tornado.be>]

On December 3, 1996, Mary Beth wrote :

>Does anyone have any information on the technology described below?  This
>is the first I've heard of it.  Mary Beth

>** INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES **

>Nuclear Byproduct Cleanses Stubborn Smokestack Pollutants. The
>New York Times, December 3, 1996, pC4.

I do not know about that specific catalyst. But I know that German company
BASF has designed a process based on three mixed up catalysts - titanium,
molybdene and tungstene oxides - achieving the same result : breaking
organohalogenated molecules into CO2, chlorhydric and fluorhydric acid
(depending on the halogen) and water. I look to these catalysts with more
sympathy than to uranium oxides. Do you too ?

Best regards, de Broux
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