Methane conversion : proceedings of a symposium on the production of fuels and chemicals from natural gas, Auckland, April 27-30, 1987 /
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| Imprint: | Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier ; New York, NY, U.S.A. : Distributors for the United States and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1988. |
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| Description: | xiii, 741 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in surface science and catalysis ; vol. 36 Studies in surface science and catalysis 36. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/978231 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 741 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographies and index. |
| ISBN: | 0444429352 |
