Re: Methane to liquids

In sci.chem Uncle Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Marshall Dudley wrote:

:> I am wanting to build a small methane to liquid converter. I can live
:> with either methanol or a liquid hydrocarbon output.
: 
: The best you can do is methane to syn gas to methanol to ZSM-5 high
: aromatic feedstock.  It isn't economic at the wellhead.  Bubbling
: methane into concentrated sulfuric acid plus palladium is silly except
: as a publication.

That's probably why the Catalytica process uses a platinum catalyst.

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Richard Schultz                              [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
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