As suitable catalyst support alumina pellets were selected as they are typically applied with eggshell-supported Pd/Ag nanoparticles as active outer layer. Thus, in this work various methods for the immobilization of [Pd(2-pymo)2]n particles on alumina pellets were tested initially as there is basically no published knowledge on suitable binders for MOF particle shaping. Finally, a successful immobilization was obtained using minor amounts of methyl cellulose as binder (the detailed procedure is described in the SI). With this method uniform [Pd(2-pymo)2]n/Al2O3 catalyst pellets could be produced. The catalytic performance of samples with a weight loading of 1.13 wt% and 1.48 wt% of MOF on the alumina support are presented in this work. The eggshell catalyst pellets were tested in a modified laboratory plant suitable for catalyst pellets aligned within four TEMKIN reactor modules (Figure ) as reported recently. For the catalytic testing the same program and temperature ramp as for the previous powder experiments were used, but this time 11 pellets of [Pd(2-pymo)2]n/Al2O3 were tested using the same feed composition #1 (Table ). The results (Figure ) already show a high conversion of acetylene at lower temperatures with 82.8 % at 70 °C and reaching full conversion at 80 °C. Up to the full conversion the ethane make is low with 0.103 mol% at 70 °C but strongly increases at 80 °C to 0.947 mol%. A further increase of the reaction temperature to 90 °C leads to an ethane make of 3.331 mol%, at which point more ethylene than acetylene is ).