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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2003
W. Spencer Wheat, Missouri City, TX (US);
Vesna R. Mirkovic, Pearland, TX (US);
Kevin H. Nguyen, Missouri City, TX (US);
Curtis L. Krause, Houston, TX (US);
James F. Stevens, Katy, TX (US);
Daniel G. Casey, Kingwood, TX (US);
W. Spencer Wheat, Missouri City, TX (US);
Vesna R. Mirkovic, Pearland, TX (US);
Kevin H. Nguyen, Missouri City, TX (US);
Curtis L. Krause, Houston, TX (US);
James F. Stevens, Katy, TX (US);
Daniel G. Casey, Kingwood, TX (US);
Texaco Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for start-up and shut down of a fuel processor including an autothermal reformer employing a non-pyrophoric shift catalyst is disclosed. Also disclosed are a computer programmed to start-up or shut down a fuel processor including an autothermal reformer employing a non-pyrophoric shift catalyst or a program storage medium encoded with instruction that, when executed by a computer, start-up or shut down a fuel processor including an autothermal reformer employing a non-pyrophoric shift catalyst.