Sustainable strategies for the upgrading of natural gas : fundamentals, challenges, and opportunities : [proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Sustainable Strategies for the Upgrading of Natural Gas: Fundamentals, Challenges, and Opportuniti

Energy and feedstock materials for the chemical industry are in increasing demand and, with constraints related to the availability and use of oil, the energy and chemical industry is undergoing considerable changes. In recent years, major restructuring has occurred in the oil, petrochemical, and chemical industry, with increasing attention devoted to the use of natural gas, methane in particular, as a chemical feedstock rather than just as a fuel. The conversion of remote natural gas into liquid fuels or other transportable chemicals is a challenge to industrial catalysis. Few processes exist so far with the major ones involving the conversion of natural gas to synthesis gas by steam reforming, CO 2 reforming, or partial oxidation, followed by the syntheses of methanol, hydrocarbons (Fischer-Tropsch synthesis), or ammonia. In this book, a comprehensive overview of the field of processing natural gas is given, through a series of chapters written by leading scientists and engineers in the field. New developments are discussed and current work relevant to the area is shown by a series of recent works by researchers working in this and related fields. Natural Gas: Fuel or Feedstock?....Pages 3-24 Molecular Chemistry of Alkane Activation....Pages 25-50 Economics of Alkane Conversion....Pages 51-83 Theoretical Basis of the Activation of Light Alkanes....Pages 85-105 Surface Organometallic Chemistry of Tantalum: Application to the Metathesis of Alkanes Catalyzed by a Tantalum Hydride Supported on Silica....Pages 107-123 The Challenges in Converting Remote Natural Gas to Valuable Products....Pages 125-136 Alternative Routes to Synfuel from Natural Gas....Pages 137-147 New Technologies for Light Alkane Upgrading....Pages 149-171 Fundamentals of the Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis....Pages 173-183 Reactor Technology for Syngas and Hydrogen....Pages 185-216 Engineering Alkanes to Olefins and Higher Value Chemicals....Pages 217-247 Membrane Reactors for the Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis....Pages 249-271 Sources of Methane for Sustainable Development....Pages 273-284 CO 2 Separation by Membranes in Natural Gas Processing....Pages 287-292 Structural and Textural Properties of MCM-41 Mesoporous Molecular Sieves Containing Nb, V, Mo — Alternative Catalysts for Hydrocarbons Oxidation....Pages 293-299 Acidic and Catalytic Properties of Dealuminated BEA Zeolites....Pages 301-303 Influence of the H-Ferrierite Sample on the Selectivity of Skeletal N-Butene Isomerization....Pages 305-308 Study on the Lattice Defects in the Mixed Oxides of Neodymium and Alkaline Earth Elements and Their Role on the Oxidative Coupling of Methane....Pages 309-315 Molecular Mechanism of the Methane Dissociation on the Vanadium Oxides Clusters. DFT Calculations....Pages 317-319 Acidity, Activity and Micro-Kinetics Studies in an H-ZSM5....Pages 321-326 Microkinetic Model for Propane Activation over H-ZSM5....Pages 327-332 13 C MAS NMR Mechanistic Study of the Initial Stages of Propane Activation over Zn/H-MFI Catalyst....Pages 333-338 Dehydrogenation of Propane over Chromium-Based Catalysts....Pages 339-343 Catalytic Oxidation of Methanol to Formaldehyde....Pages 345-349 Conversion of Gas Condensate over Metal-Containing MFI Catalysts....Pages 351-357 Coke Formation on Alumina and Alumina Supported Platinum Catalysts....Pages 359-364 Activation Studies of the Cs-Doped Cu/ZnO Catalyst for the Higher Alcohol Synthesis....Pages 365-375 Development of High Temperature Catalytic Reactors for Oxidative Conversion of Natural Gas....Pages 377-382 The Effect of Process Conditions on Product Formation in Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis....Pages 383-387 Mathematical Modeling of Steam Reforming Tubes with Shaped Particles....Pages 389-394 Application of NMR Microimaging for the Investigation of the Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions Inside Catalyst Pellets and Fixed Catalyst Bed....Pages 395-400 Natural Gas as Feedstock....Pages 403-412 Sustainable Strategies for the Upgrading of Natural Gas....Pages 413-420 Energy and feedstock materials for the chemical industry are in demand and, with constraints on the availability and use of oil, the industry is undergoing considerable changes. This book talks about the major restructuring in the oil, petrochemical, and chemical industry, with attention to natural gas as a chemical feedstock, than just as a fuel.