Research Letters in Physical Chemistry
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 631815, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/631815
Research Letter

Hydrogen Production via Steam Reforming of Ethyl Alcohol over Palladium/Indium Oxide Catalyst

Tetsuo Umegaki, Yusuke Yamada, Atsushi Ueda, Nobuhiro Kuriyama, and Qiang Xu

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan

Received 17 March 2009; Accepted 3 July 2009

Academic Editor: Jim Anderson

Copyright © 2009 Tetsuo Umegaki et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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