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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 30, 1998
Hideo Fukui, Toyama, JP;
Masayuki Kobayashi, Miyagi, JP;
Tadashi Yamaguchi, Sendai, JP;
Hironori Arakawa, Tsukuba, JP;
Kiyomi Okabe, Tsukuba, JP;
Kazuhiro Sayama, Tsukuba, JP;
Hitoshi Kusama, Tsukuba, JP;
Director-General of Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, JP;
YKK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A catalyst for methanol synthesis and reforming which is constituted of copper, zinc, and aluminum oxides and has a structure comprising copper or copper oxide particles covered with a film of aluminum oxide and zinc oxide. The copper or copper oxide particles preferably have a particle size of 1 to 100 nm. The film of aluminum oxide and zinc oxide preferably has a thickness of 0.1 to 100 nm. The proportions of the copper, zinc, and aluminum elements are 68.0 to 86.0% by weight, 4.5 to 21.0% by weight, and 2.0 to 20.0% by weight, respectively. The foregoing highly active catalyst comprising copper, zinc, and aluminum oxides can be obtained not by a costly special technique but by the coprecipitation method, which is the most common process for catalyst production, without using any additive element.