Oxidation of methane over heterogeneous catalysts
US5336826A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 22, 1986 |
| Grant date | Aug 9, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 22, 2006 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S585/943
- WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
Higher hydrocarbons are produced from methane by reacting the methane at elevated temperature, suitably in the range from 600.degree. to 800.degree. C., with an oxygen-containing gas having a ratio of methane to oxygen of greater than the stoichiometric ratio for complete combustion in the presence as catalyst of a lithium-doped material which under the reaction conditions is a physically base-stable, non-melting, oxygen-stable compound of an element of Groups III to VIII of the Periodic Table of the Elements including the rare earth elements.
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