Advances in Catalytic Methane Activation

A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 4734

Special Issue Editors

Institute for Micromanufacturing, Louisiana Tech University, 505 Tech Drive, Ruston, LA 71272, USA
Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; methane activation; hydrogen generation; safety analysis of chemical reactors
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Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Interests: the rational design, scalable synthesis, hierarchical assembly, and controlled consolidation of molecular nanostructured materials; elucidation of the fundamental electronic, thermal, catalytic, and mechanical properties of these bulk nanocomposite materials; exploration of new fundamental science and potential engineering device applications
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Washington, DC, USA
Interests: in situ high-resolution and high-speed atomic force microscopy (AFM); 3D Fast Force Mapping (3DFFM)
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues, 

There is widespread interest in converting methane, the primary component of natural gas and shale gas, into valuable chemicals. In the last decade, catalytic methane activation has made advances in various areas, including oxidative coupling of methane, methane selective oxidation to methanol or other C1 or C2 oxygenates (HCHO, HCOOH, and CH3COOH, etc.). In the present Special Issue, we will accept original research papers and review papers on recent advances in catalytic methane activation.

Dr. Yang Xiao
Prof. Dr. Yue Wu
Dr. Shuai Zhang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • methane activation
  • catalysis
  • methane
  • alkanes
  • shale gas
  • OCM
  • NOCM
  • selective oxidation of methane

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Methane Production from Biomass by Thermochemical Conversion: A Review
by Yuke Wu, Xinchen Ye, Yutong Wang and Lian Wang
Catalysts 2023, 13(4), 771; https://doi.org/10.3390/catal13040771 - 19 Apr 2023
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Methane, the main component of natural gas, is one of the primary sources of energy extensively employed worldwide. However, the utilization of natural gas is limited by reserves and geographical availability. Thus, a thermochemical method of converting biomass to methane is appealing, especially [...] Read more.
Methane, the main component of natural gas, is one of the primary sources of energy extensively employed worldwide. However, the utilization of natural gas is limited by reserves and geographical availability. Thus, a thermochemical method of converting biomass to methane is appealing, especially gasification. Important factors affecting methane production are discussed in the review including operating parameters, catalysts of methanation and gas conditioning effects. Low temperature and high pressure are beneficial to promote methanation reaction. Ni-based catalysts are widely used as methanation catalysts, but suffer from deactivation problems due to carbon deposition, sintering and poisoning. The methods of gas conditioning include using water gas shift reaction and adding hydrogen from electrolysis. In addition, environmental and economic views are discussed. Other thermochemical process including hydrothermal gasification, fast pyrolysis and direct methanation at low temperature are also introduced briefly. Based on the above discussion, potential research directions for optimizing methane production are proposed. Full article
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