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Article: Catalyst that converts methane to methanol in simple and efficient process developed.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- November 12, 2009
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Byline: ANI
Washington, November 12 (ANI): Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research and at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces have developed a catalyst that converts methane to methanol in a simple and efficient process.
Although there are chemical ways to convert methane to methanol, which is easy to transport and which is suitable as a raw material for the chemical industry, "the processes commonly used up to now for producing diesel fuel - steam reforming followed by methanol synthesis or Fischer-Tropsch synthesis - are not economical," said Ferdi Schuth, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in ...