Abstract: A process for removing hydrogen from an oxygen gas stream includes electrolysing water in an electrolyser to generate a hydrogen-rich stream and an oxygen-rich stream. The oxygen-rich stream includes hydrogen. The process also includes feeding the oxygen-rich stream to a reactor having a gold-containing catalyst and contacting, in the reactor, the oxygen-rich stream with the gold-containing catalyst. The gold-containing catalyst includes gold and a second metal on an oxidic support and an oxygen partial pressure of the oxygen-rich stream in the reactor is greater than 1 bar.

Abstract: A method for the preparation of a supported metal nitrate, suitable as a precursor for a catalyst or sorbent, includes the steps of: (i) impregnating a support material with a metal nitrate, (ii) optionally drying the impregnated material at low temperature, and (iii) exposing the impregnated material to a gas mixture comprising nitric oxide at a temperature in the range 0-150° C., to form a dispersed supported metal nitrate. The metal nitrate may subsequently be converted to the corresponding oxide by calcining the metal nitrate to effect its decomposition. Preferred metals are iron, ruthenium, cobalt, rhodium, iridium, nickel, palladium, platinum, copper or a mixture thereof.