US Patent Issued to IFP Energies nouvelles on Oct. 28 for "Method for preparing a catalyst comprising an active nickel phase distributed in a shell" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,965, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to IFP Energies nouvelles (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

"Method for preparing a catalyst comprising an active nickel phase distributed in a shell" was invented by Malika Boualleg (Rueil-Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for preparing a catalyst comprising an active phase based on nickel and an alumina support, which process comprises the following steps: a) said support is impregnated with a volume V1 of a butanol solution of between 0.2 and 0.8 times the total pore volume TPV of said support in order to obtain an impregnated support; b) the impregnated support obtained at th...