Fig. 119: Conversion of n-butane as a function of time during steam reforming in a 3% n-butane/ 7% hydrogen / 3% water in helium mixture at a space velocity of 1.2 hour­1. The dashed curve shows the n-butane conversion for the Ni and the solid curve is for the supported Ni/Au catalyst.

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