Research Article

Preliminary Assessment of Oxidation Pretreated Hastelloy as Hydrocarbon Steam Reforming Catalyst

Table 1

Production rates of primary gas produced via tetradecane steam reforming over preoxidized Ni-containing alloys*.

AlloyProduction rate ( mol/s)**
COH2CH4

Inconel-6002.7524.41.13
Inconel-60102.231.63
Hastelloy7.4521.50.99
Superinvar2.769.441.44
SUS30400.730.74

Refer to Tagawa et al. (2013) [18] for the chemical composition of tested alloys; data were collected after 120 minutes.