Methane conversion: proceedings of a symposium on the production of fuels and chemicals from natural gas, Auckland, April 27-30, 1987

✍ Scribed by D. M. Bibby, C. D. Chang, R. F. Howe, S. Yurchak

• Book ID: 127460978
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 9 MB
• Series: Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis
• Category: Library
• City: Amsterdam ; New York
• ISBN-13: 9780444429353
• ISSN: 0167-2991

✦ Synopsis

This proceedings volume comprises the invited plenary lectures, contributed and poster papers presented at a symposium organised to mark the successful inauguration of the world's first commercial plant for production of gasoline from natural gas, based on the Mobil methanol-to-gasoline process. The objectives of the Symposium were to present both fundamental research and engineering aspects of the development and commercialization of gas-to-gasoline processes. These include steam reforming, methanol synthesis and methanol-to-gasoline. Possible alternative processes e.g. MOGD, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of hydrocarbons, and the direct conversion of methane to higher hydrocarbons were also considered. The papers in this volume provide a valuable and extremely wide-ranging overview of current research into the various options for natural gas conversion, giving a detailed description of the gas-to-gasoline process and plant. Together, they represent a unique combination of fundamental surface chemistry catalyst characterization, reaction chemistry and engineering scale-up and commercialization.