In previous studies, it has been shown that the heats of adsorption at several coverages of each adsorbed CO species (linear, bridged, and threefold coordinated) on a 2.9% Pt/Al2O3 catalyst can be obtained from the change in the IR band area of each adsorbed CO species with the adsorption temperature T-a (in the 300-800 K range) at a constant CO partial pressure P-a. In the present study, this procedure is used to reveal the eventual impact of the Pt dispersion (range 0.44-0.75) on the heats of adsorption of the linear CO species adsorbed on several Pt/Al2O3 catalysts. It is shown that the Pt dispersion has no strong impact on this parameter at several coverage values. (C) 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.