King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Ijaz Hussain

Khalid Rashed Alhooshani

Zuhair Omar Malaibari

Mohammed Mosaad Awad

A method of cracking a hydrocarbon including contacting the hydrocarbon with a catalyst; where on the contacting, the hydrocarbon is cracked into a plurality of compounds, each having a smaller number of carbon atoms than the hydrocarbon. The catalyst includes an aluminosilicate zeolite, the aluminosilicate zeolite includes a weight ratio of SiOto AlOof 10-200:1. Particles of the aluminosilicate zeolite have a flake shape with an average longest dimension of 10 nanometers (nm) to 50 nm and the flakes are stacked on top of one another.

Method of cracking a hydrocarbon

A method for dry reformation of methane (DRM) includes introducing a H-containing feed gas stream into a reactor, including a nickel-containing fibrous silica zinc oxide (Ni/FSZ) catalyst, passing the H-containing feed gas stream through the reactor to contact the H-containing feed gas stream with particles of the Ni/FSZ catalyst at a temperature of from 500 to 900 degrees Celsius (° C.) to form a reduced catalyst; terminating the introduction of the H-containing feed gas stream and introducing and passing a mixed feed gas stream including CHand COthrough the reactor to contact the mixed feed gas stream with the reduced catalyst at a temperature of from 500 to 1000° C. thereby converting at least a portion of the CHand COto Hand CO; and regenerating the Ni/FSZ catalyst particles to form a regenerated catalyst and producing a residue gas stream leaving the reactor.

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Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Ijaz Hussain