An evaluative investigation of propane CO2 reforming over bimetallic alumina supported 5%Mo-10%Ni catalyst has been carried out in a fixed-bed reactor at 0.1 MPa and temperatures ranging from 823 to 973 K. Temperature-programmed calcination revealed the metal nitrate decomposition of Mo-Ni catalyst at around 475 K, while TPR analysis showed the complete reduction of fresh catalyst at 973 K. Physicochemical properties of Mo-Ni/Al2O3 catalyst were determined from N-2-physisorption, H-2-chemisorption, NH3 and CO2-temperature-programmed desorption as well as X-ray diffraction analysis. NH3-TPD analysis revealed that the Mo-Ni/Al2O3 catalyst surface was populated with weak and strong Lewis acid sites, while CO2-TPD showed only one peak assigned to weak Lewis basic site. Increased CO2 partial pressure in feed caused an initial increase in H-2, CO, and CO2 reaction rates, peaked at stoichiometric feed ratio (R), CO2:C3H8, of 3 followed by a gentle decrease for R > 3. H-2:CO and CH4:CO experienced logarithmic decay with increased reactant ratio, while CO:CO2 ratio remained constant at 2. Time-on-stream analysis revealed that Mo-Ni is a stable and active catalyst at different temperatures during propane dry reforming. A global kinetic expression corresponding to carbon deposition was obtained over various feed compositions and temperatures. Post-reaction data from TPR-TPO-TPR-TPO confirmed the presence of at least two carbon pools, C-alpha and C-beta. The former, atomic carbon is reactive with H-2 and the latter, dehydropolymerised and aged carbonaceous matter, is only removed by O-2. 0 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.