Low-temperature Activation and Catalytic Transformation of Methane to Non-CO2 Products

Franklin Tao

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781394193257
• eBook ISBN: 9781394193271
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Materials Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Sustainably tap into one of the world's most abundant natural resources with these approaches

Methane is one of our crucial natural resources, with myriad applications both domestic and industrial. The increasingly urgent search for a sustainable and green chemical production demands methods for the transformations of methane that maximize its potential as a raw material of chemical, manufacturing, and energy industries without a harmful effect on the atmosphere and local environment.

Low-Temperature Activation and Catalytic Transformation of Methane to Non-CO₂ Products introduces a growing field in chemistry, chemical engineering, and energy sciences. Beginning with an overview of methane formation and its significance in chemical production, the book surveys historical transformations of methane to value-added chemicals and explains why a low-temperature route of methane transformation is necessary and significant. It then discusses existing findings in low-temperature activation and catalytic transformation, including activations with free standing single-atom cations, free standing MO+ clusters, and broadly defined M-O clusters encapsulated in zeolites, and catalytic oxidation by molecular catalysts, metal atoms anchored in zeolites, and metal sites on alloy nanoparticles. The book concludes with a chapter discussing current challenges and promising solutions to tackle these challenges.

Low-Temperature Activation and Catalytic Transformation of Methane to Non-CO₂ Products readers will also find:

• Coverage of concepts, perspectives, and skills required for those working in this important field in catalysis research.
• Exemplified experimental and computational results throughout, derived from existing research literature.
• Detailed discussion of low-temperature transformation methods incorporating catalysts including zeolite, gold-palladium, and many more.

Low-Temperature Activation and Catalytic Transformation of Methane to Non-CO₂ Products is ideal for experimentalists, researchers, scientists, and engineers working in methane transformation, heterogeneous catalysis, homogeneous catalysis, sustainable chemistry, surface science and related fields.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Why Do We Care About Methane?
• 2 Properties and Chemical Inertness of Methane
• 3 Formation of Methane in Nature and by Anthropogenic Activity
• 4 Extraction of Methane for Chemical Production
• 5 Methane Emission and Its Impact on Environment
• 6 Brief of High‐Temperature Catalytic and Noncatalytic Transformation of Methane
• 7 Electrochemical Conversion of Chemical Energy of CH4 to Electrical Energy at Intermediate Temperature
• 8 Brief of Thermodynamics of Transformation of Methane at Low Temperature
• 9 Activation of CH4 by Free‐standing Cations (M+ or Man+ ) of Single Atom or Cluster at Room Temperature and Its Significant Indication for CH4 Low‐Temperature Activation
• 10 Oxidization of CH4 by Free‐standing MO+ Clusters at Room Temperature in Low‐pressure CH4
• 11 Catalytic Oxidation of Methane through Free‐standing M+ in Gas Phase at Low Temperature
• 12 Activation and Catalytic Oxidation of CH4 through M1On Clusters Anchored on Open Support at Low Temperature
• 13 Catalytic Transformation of Methane through Organometallic Approach at Low Temperature
• 14 Solid Organic Catalysts for the Selective Low‐temperature Oxidation of Methane to Methanol
• 15 Confinement Effect in Micropores of Microporous Aluminosilicate
• 16 Brief of Experimental Methods of Low‐temperature Activation and Catalytic Conversion of CH4 through M–O Clusters Anchored in Zeolite
• 17 Oxidation of Methane by N2O through M–O Clusters Anchored in Zeolite in the Gas Phase at Low Temperature
• 18 Oxidation of Methane through M–O Sites Anchored in Zeolite or AuPd Nanoparticles by H2O2 at Low Temperature
• 19 Noncatalytic and Catalytic Oxidation of Methane with O2 through M–O Clusters Anchored in Zeolite in Liquid at Low Temperature
• 20 Oxidation of CH4 and CO with O2 through M–O Clusters Anchored in Zeolite in Liquid at Low Temperature
• 21 Challenges and Prospect
• Index
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