Question

In food industries, vegetable oil is converted into vegetable ghee by passing H2 gas through the oil. Finely divided Ni is used as a catalyst. Ni accelerates this process by adsorbing H2 gas on its surface, producing a solution. What type of solution is this?

Answer 1

Answer:

A saturated fat called vegetable ghee or vanaspati ghee is generated when a vegetable oil, such as groundnut oil, is heated with hydrogen in the presence of finely divided nickel as a catalyst. This process is known as the hydrogenation of oil and can be represented as follows