La2O2CO3 was prepared by calcination of La2 （CO3）3 in the air. Catalysts Ni-Fe/La2O2CO3 with different mole ratios of Ni to Fe, Ni/La2O2CO3 and Fe/La2O2CO3 were prepared by impregnation method. The catalytic properties were evaluated on steam reforming of ethanol （SRE） from 300 to 700 ℃ under atmospheric pressure and the samples were characterized by Brunauer-Emmett-Teller method （BET）, X-ray diffraction （XRD） and temperature programmed reduction （TPR）. The results showed that Ni-Fe bimetallic catalysts exhibited higher activities than single metallic catalysts, which was attributed to the co-existence of well dispersed Ni, Fe and LaFeyNi1-yO3. It was found that the catalyst Ni-Fe/La2O2CO3 containing 10 wt.% Ni and 3 wt.%-5 wt.% Fe showed the best performance, the conversion of ethanol was 100%, the selectivity of H2 was higher than 90%, and the selectivity of CO was lower than 1.5% at 400 ℃.
Ni/ZnO and Ni-Nd/ZnO were prepared by impregnation method, and the catalytic activities of Ni/ZnO and Ni-Nd/ZnO for hydrodesulfurization （HDS） of thiophene were tested. The catalysts were characterized by temperature programmed reduction（TPR）, H2-TPD and NH3-TPD.The results showed that Ni-Nd/ZnO exhibited higher catalytic activity than Ni/ZnO, because the active surface area and the amount of HE adsorption were increased by the addition of Nd. Compared with Ni/ZnO, Ni-Nd/ZnO showed more HE adsorbing centers and stronger acid property, which were also in favor of the reaction.
Y2O3-Al2O3 with different mole ratios of Y：Al were prepared by co-precipitation method. Catalysts Ni/Y2O3, Ni/Al2O3 and Ni/ Y2O3-Al2O3 were prepared by impregnation method. The result of BET showed that Al2O3 with relative high surface area was in favor of Ni distribution, whilst the TPR test demonstrated that composite support had appropriate synergistic effect between active constituent and sup-port, and NiO could be reduced more easily than loaded on the single support. H2-TPD test indicated that the catalyst NYA11 had lots of ac-tivity sites where H could be desorbed easily, which led to hydrogen-rich production over the catalyst. Composite support catalysts exhibited high activity for ethanol steam reforming （SRE）, and the supported catalyst with composite of 1：1 mole ratio of Y：Al exhibited the optimum catalytic properties for SRE. Ethanol could be completely converted over catalyst NYA11 even at 450 °C, and there had no inactivation after 60 h continuous reaction, hydrogen yield appeared maximum 35.9% at 400 ℃, and tended to increase with increasing H2O/EtOH molar ratio and feed flow rate.
