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- Title
Effect of magnetic field on reduction of nickel oxide.
- Authors
ROWE, M. W.; FANICK, R.; JEWETT, D.; ROWE, J. D.
- Abstract
'IN 1872, US patent No. 133099 on the use of a magnetic coil for 'Improvement in Reduction of Ores, etc.' was granted to Abraham T. Hay, of Burlington, Iowa1. It was a failure.' Thus stated Skorski2 who a century later reported that the reduction rate of haematite (Fe2O3) with H2 was considerably enhanced by application of 500- and 1,400-oersted magnetic fields as compared with reduction in the Earth's field (∼0.5 oersted). Skorski2 also used CH4 and CO for the reduction, but found the rate in these cases was slower in a strong magnetic field than in the Earth's field. He concluded that the effect must be dependent on the magnetic properties of H2 itself rather than on those of Fe and its oxides. This notion was immediately challenged by Svare3 who demonstrated that the magnetic properties of H2 are not significantly different from those of CO and CH4 in the context of the reaction involved. Peters4, however, argued that the observed acceleration in reaction rate is predictable from thermodynamics theory when product and reactant species differ widely in their magnetic properties-as do Fe2O3 and metallic Fe (or NiO and metallic Ni) for example. One can readily view this argument qualitatively in terms of Le Chatelier's principle.
- Publication
Nature, 1976, Vol 263, Issue 5580, p756
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/263756a0