What is Hydrogenation!?.... what is it's industrial Application!?
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Hydrogenation – meaning, to treat with hydrogen – is a chemical reaction between molecular hydrogen and another compound or element, usually in the presence of a catalyst such as nickel, palladium or platinum. The process is commonly employed to reduce or saturate organic compounds.
INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION
Conversion of vegetable oil into vegetable ghee
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Explanation:
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The addition of hydrogen to unsaturated hydrocarbon in the presence of catalyst is called Hydrogenation
Industrial Application -:
Vegetable oils have long unsaturated carbon chains. These on hydrogenation in the presence of nickel catalyst from saturated carbon chains which are animal fats or ghee. Thus ghee on industrial scale is made by hydrogenation of naturally available vegetable oils