Process intensification in the catalytic conversion of natural gas to fuels and chemicals

Robert J. Kee; Canan Karakaya; Huayang Zhu

doi:10.1016/j.proci.2016.06.014

Process intensification in the catalytic conversion of natural gas to fuels and chemicals

Robert J. Kee, Canan Karakaya, Huayang Zhu

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Abstract

A discussion on the alternative technologies for the conversion of natural gas to higher-value products covers methane reforming and the reforming catalyst; novel reactor-design approaches that include microchannel reactors and permselective membranes; Fischer-Tropsch synthesis; Oxidative Coupling of Methane (OCM) which is intended to produce ethylene as the primary product; OCM reactors; methane dehydroaromatization a process that is intended to produce benzene from methane; and membrane technology.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	51-76
Number of pages	26
Journal	Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
Volume	36
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2016.06.014
State	Published - 2017

Funding

This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research (N00014-08-1-0539), the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-12-1-0495), and CoorsTek, Inc. We gratefully acknowledge the frequent and insightful discussions with Profs. Greg Jackson, Robert Braun, Sandrine Ricote, Ryan O'Hayre, Brian Trewyn, Douglas Way, and Anthony Dean (CSM) and Drs. Grover Coors and Jim Steppan (CoorsTek, Membrane Sciences).

Keywords

Gas-to-liquids
Membrane reactors
Methane reforming
Microchannel reactors
Process intensification

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