Catalysts for Methane Conversion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Methane is the main component of biogas and natural gas. During oil extraction, billions of cubic metres of methane are simply burned off unused, because commercial transportation often does not exist. This is a problem that the Berlin Cluster of Excellence “Unifying Concepts in Catalysis” (UniCat) wants to solve with the help of catalysis.
Excellent!
Why ethylene, Can’t we convert methane into hydrogen and acetylene using plasma heating... Please suggest
the idea is to store it on a liquid form for ease and stability of transport. hydrogen and acetylene is however a gaseous material that requires high cost and specification in order to transfer the materials.
The reason is probably twofold, and the first I list is actually a guess: Energy Efficiency. It PROBABLY takes less energy to convert to ethylene, because ethylene is a very simple molecule.
The other reason is no doubt The Joys of Transportation. To transport Acetylene safely, we use a tank that is filled with a porous material, usually fiberglass cloth, and then filled with Acetone (Common name: Fingernail Polish Remover). The Acetylene is absorbed by the Acetone in 25 times the quantity that it can be compressed to.
Because trying to compress Acetylene makes it spontaneously go *BOOM.*
All by its lonesome, no oxidizers needed. Acetylene is so unstable that it can *boom* if the tank merely _FALLS OVER._
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