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A Dual‐Reactor Concept for the High‐Yielding Conversion of Methane into Higher Hydrocarbons
Author(s) -
Kondratenko Evgenii V.,
Rodemerck Uwe
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
chemcatchem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1867-3899
pISSN - 1867-3880
DOI - 10.1002/cctc.201200779
Subject(s) - methane , oxidative coupling of methane , yield (engineering) , dual (grammatical number) , process engineering , chemistry , computer science , environmental science , organic chemistry , engineering , thermodynamics , physics , art , literature
Dual to the death: The selective conversion of methane into higher alkanes in industrially relevant conversions combines the oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) with the selective hydrogenation of CO and CO 2 in a second reactor, without the need for expensive pre‐separation of the reaction products that are formed in the OCM reactor. Thus, the yield of higher alkanes (34 %) is at least 50 % higher than that from a single OCM reactor.