(b) What is hydrogenation ? What is its industrial application
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Hydrogenation is a chemical reaction between molecular hydrogen and other compounds and elements. Hydrogenation is used in many applications such as the food industry, petrochemical industry and the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry
Hydrogenation is the chemical reaction between hydrogen and other compounds in the presence of catalyst. . Hydrogenation is an addition reaction.
Example: When ethene is heated with H2
and the catalyst nickel it is reduced to ethane.
CH2=CH2 ⟶CH3CH 3
Industrial application: Hydrogenation is used in many industrial applications.
For example; in Petrochemical Industry, hydrogenation is used to convert alkenes into alkanes (paraffins) and cycloalkanes. Hydrogenation is also used to prepare vegetable ghee from vegetable oils.