“…In addition, the Ni/Al 2 O 3 catalyst exhibited poor catalytic activity for CO methanation in slurry-bed reactor (Zhang et al, 2013;Meng et al, 2014b), because the slurry solvent prevents the use of high temperatures. To further improve the catalytic activity and stability of Ni-based catalyst, many studies have focused on the addition of second metal (Hwang et al, 2012), such as La (Zhi et al, 2011;Cui et al, 2014), Ce (Qin et al, 2015;Liu et al, 2014), Fe (Tian et al, 2013) and Zr etc.. Previous studies have shown that La and Ce are better promoters at low temperatures than the others are (Zhi et al, 2011;Senanayake et al, 2011;Liu et al, 2014).…”