scholarly journals Selective Oxidation of Methane to Methanol on Dispersed Copper on Alumina from Readily Available Copper(II) Formate

Author(s):  
Jordan Meyet ◽  
Sander van Bavel ◽  
Andrew Horton ◽  
Jeroen van Bokhoven ◽  
Christophe Coperet

The direct conversion of methane to methanol attracts increasing interest due to the availability of low-cost methane from natural gas. Significant steps in that direction have already been achieved, using...

REAKTOR ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
D. D. Anggoro

Methane is the main component of natural gas and this research provides the platrorm on the potential of utilizing natural gas, found abundant in Indonesia, to form gasoline. The objectives of the research are to modify HZSM-5 zeolite with a series of transition metals (Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, and Pt) and Ga , and to evaluate the performances  of these catalyst  for the single step conversion of methane to gasoline. The oxidation of methane were carried out in a micro-packed bed reactor at atmoepheric pressure, temperature 800 0C, F/W = 10440 ml/g.hr and 9%vol O2. Metals were loaded into the HZSM-5 zeolite by the wetness incipient impregnation method. The characterization results indicated that the ionic metals (Mn+) occupy the H+ position of HZSM-5 and metal loaded HZSM-5. Ni- HZSM-5, Cu- HZSM-5 and Ga- HZSM-5 gave a high methane conversion and high gasoline selectivity. Among the catalyst samles tested, Cr- HZSM-5 showed the highest  Research Octane Number (RON=86). These  catalyst have the potential  to convert natural gas to C5+ liquid hydrocarbons provided the oxidation, dehydration and oligomerization function of the metals are in balance.Keywords : direct conversion, methane, liquid hydrocarbons, metal, HZSM-5


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (24) ◽  
pp. 6132-6139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhui Hou ◽  
Sho Ogasawara ◽  
Atsushi Fukuoka ◽  
Hirokazu Kobayashi

Rh sub-nano clusters supported on zeolite are remarkably more active, selective, and durable than Rh nanoparticles for the conversion of methane to syngas at low temperature.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sibel Sogukkanli ◽  
Takahiko Moteki ◽  
Masaru Ogura

Catalytic CO-assisted direct conversion of methane into methanol was demonstrated over Cu-CHA zeolites. Methanol was selectively produced as a solo oxygenate product. The results suggested the necessity of low copper...


RSC Advances ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (53) ◽  
pp. 30989-31003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venkata D. B. C. Dasireddy ◽  
Darko Hanzel ◽  
Krish Bharuth-Ram ◽  
Blaž Likozar

The effect of the phase transformation of a FePO4 catalyst material from the tridymite-like (tdm) FePO4 to the α-domain (α-Fe3(P2O7)2) during the direct selective oxidation of methane to methanol was studied using oxidant species O2, H2O and N2O.


Nano Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingyang Wu ◽  
Yi Zeng ◽  
Hangchen Liu ◽  
Jiaqing Zhao ◽  
Tierui Zhang ◽  
...  

Catalysts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Unni Engedahl ◽  
Adam A. Arvidsson ◽  
Henrik Grönbeck ◽  
Anders Hellman

As transportation continues to increase world-wide, there is a need for more efficient utilization of fossil fuel. One possibility is direct conversion of the solution gas bi-product CH4 into an energy-rich, easily usable liquid fuel such as CH3OH. However, new catalytic materials to facilitate the methane-to-methanol reaction are needed. Using density functional calculations, the partial oxidation of methane is investigated over the small-pore copper-exchanged zeolite SSZ-13. The reaction pathway is identified and the energy landscape elucidated over the proposed motifs Z2[Cu2O] and Z2[Cu2OH]. It is shown that the Z2[Cu2O] motif has an exergonic reaction path, provided water is added as a solvent for the desorption step. However, a micro-kinetic model shows that neither Z2[Cu2O] nor Z2[Cu2OH] has any notable activity under the reaction conditions. These findings highlight the importance of the detailed structure of the active site and that the most stable motif is not necessarily the most active.


Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 944
Author(s):  
Anil C. Banerjee

Methane (the major component of natural gas) is one of the main energy sources for gas-powered turbines for power generation, and transport vehicles [...]


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