Process for manufacturing a catalyst body for generating hydrogen and a catalyst body for generating hydrogen

US6432871B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• XCELLSiS GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Patrick Bachinger · Lenningen, DE
• Berthold Keppeler · Owen, DE
• Oskar Lamla · Owen, DE
• Bernd Schoenrock · Owen, DE
• Martin Schuessler · Bad Birnbach, DE
• Dagmar Waidelich · Winnenden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 18, 1999
• Grant date: Aug 13, 2002
• Expiry date: Oct 18, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P20/52
• WIPO field: Materials, metallurgy
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A process for manufacturing a catalyst body for generating hydrogen having at least one thin, large-surface catalyst layer, through which the reaction mixture can be passed includes steps of pressing a copper powder (particularly dendritic copper) to form a thin and highly compressed layer which forms a formed body, sintering, the formed body in a reducing atmosphere so that a net-type carrier structure made of copper is formed, and activating a surface layer of the formed body.