US 11,938,471 B2
Metal porous body, water vapor reformer including the same, and method for manufacturing metal porous body
Chihiro Hiraiwa, Osaka (JP); Naho Mizuhara, Osaka (JP); Mitsuyasu Ogawa, Osaka (JP); Takahiro Higashino, Osaka (JP); Hiromasa Tawarayama, Osaka (JP); Masatoshi Majima, Osaka (JP); and Yoshitaka Ogasawara, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/265,909
Filed by SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Jun. 21, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/024664
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 4, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/054170, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-172252 (JP), filed on Sep. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0162393 A1, Jun. 3, 2021
Int. Cl. B01J 37/02 (2006.01); B01J 23/46 (2006.01); B01J 23/75 (2006.01); B01J 23/755 (2006.01); B01J 35/10 (2006.01); B01J 37/00 (2006.01); C01B 3/38 (2006.01)
CPC B01J 37/0244 (2013.01) [B01J 23/462 (2013.01); B01J 23/75 (2013.01); B01J 23/755 (2013.01); B01J 35/1066 (2013.01); B01J 35/1071 (2013.01); B01J 35/1076 (2013.01); B01J 37/0018 (2013.01); C01B 3/38 (2013.01); C01B 2203/0233 (2013.01); C01P 2006/16 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A metal porous body having a skeleton of a three-dimensional network structure, an outer layer portion of the skeleton having second pores smaller in size than first pores formed by the skeleton,
wherein the outer layer portion is a metal layer,
a water vapor reforming catalyst is supported in the outer layer portion,
the metal layer includes a first metal and a second metal,
the first metal includes Ni, and
the second metal includes Sn.