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US 4,168,276 AGranted
Methanation
AssigneePhillips Petroleum Company
InventorJack N. Finch
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Abstract
A copper-molybdenum composition and process for using the composition in the production of methane from mixtures of carbon monoxide and hydrogen.
Claims12
A process for producing methane comprising reacting hydrogen and carbon monoxide under methanation conditions in the presence of a catalytically active methanation catalyst prepared by reduction of the oxides in an oxide composition consisting of copper oxide, molybdenum oxide, and catalyst support, or consisting of copper oxide and molybdenum oxide, wherein the atomic ratio of copper to molybdenum in said oxide composition is in the range of 0.1/1 to 10/1.
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