HIGHLY DISPERSED NICKEL HYDROGENATION CATALYSTS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME

摘要

A method for production of a nickel/alumina catalyst is provided, using nickel nitrate as the nickel source, involving coating alumina support particles with a nickel containing coating, drying the resulting coated particles, calcining the dried particles, and reducing the resulting calcined particles in a reducing atmosphere, to give the nickel/alumina catalyst, preferably a nickel/alumina catalyst having nickel loadings from 15-25 wt%, an available Ni surface area of at least 123 m<SUP>2</SUP>/g Ni, a Ni dispersion of at least 18.5%, and Ni particle size of less than 6 run.