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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
May. 15, 2017
Clariant Corporation, Louisville, KY (US);
Chandra Ratnasamy, Louisville, KY (US);
Jon P. Wagner, Louisville, KY (US);
Yeping Cai, Louisville, KY (US);
David B. Rogers, Louisville, KY (US);
Jason E. Spencer, Palmyra, IN (US);
Jeffery L. Braden, New Albany, IN (US);
CLARIANT CORPORATION, Louisville, KY (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to nickel/aluminum-containing catalyst materials useful, for example, as reforming catalysts, processes for making them, and processes for using them in molten carbonate fuel cells. In one aspect, the disclosure provides a catalyst material including an alumina carrier in an amount in the range of about 5 wt % to about 75 wt %; and a mixed metal oxide in an amount in the range of about 25 wt % to about 95 wt %, the mixed metal oxide including at least about 90 wt % of oxides of nickel and aluminum, the mixed metal oxide having an atomic ratio of nickel to aluminum in the range of about 60:40 to about 90:10, the mixed metal oxide being substantially free of zirconium, in the form of a composite of the alumina carrier and the mixed metal oxide.