Nippon Oil Company

Petroleum Energy Center

Tadashi Seike

Takashi Ino

A process of producing a fuel gas for fuel cells, which comprises the steps of: a) treating kerosine having a sulfur content not higher than 5 ppm with a desulfurizing agent to reduce the sulfur content of said treated kerosine to 0.2 ppm or less and b) contacting said treated kerosine from step a) with a steam reforming catalyst to provide a fuel gas mainly composed of hydrogen, said desulfurizing agent in step a) comprising a copper-nickel alloy having a copper to nickel ratio by weight of 80:20 to 20:80 and at least one carrier selected from the group consisting of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, ZnO and MgO, and the total content of copper and nickel in terms of metals in said desulfurizing agent being in the range of 40 to 70% by weight.

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Yokohama, Japan

Tadashi Seike