scholarly journals Cation-exchanged zeolites for the selective oxidation of methane to methanol

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambarish R. Kulkarni ◽  
Zhi-Jian Zhao ◽  
Samira Siahrostami ◽  
Jens K. Nørskov ◽  
Felix Studt

Development of an ideal methane activation catalyst presents a trade-off between stability and reactivity of the active site that can be achieved by tuning the transition metal cation, active site motif and the zeolite topology.


Catalysts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richa Sharma ◽  
Hilde Poelman ◽  
Guy B. Marin ◽  
Vladimir V. Galvita

Methane activation chemistry, despite being widely reported in literature, remains to date a subject of debate. The challenges in this reaction are not limited to methane activation but extend to stabilization of the intermediate species. The low C-H dissociation energy of intermediates vs. reactants leads to CO2 formation. For selective oxidation, nature presents methane monooxygenase as a benchmark. This enzyme selectively consumes methane by breaking it down into methanol. To assemble an active site similar to monooxygenase, the literature reports Cu-ZSM-5, Fe-ZSM-5, and Cu-MOR, using zeolites and systems like CeO2/Cu2O/Cu. However, the trade-off between methane activation and methanol selectivity remains a challenge. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations and spectroscopic studies indicate catalyst reducibility, oxygen mobility, and water as co-feed as primary factors that can assist in enabling higher selectivity. The use of chemical looping can further improve selectivity. However, in all systems, improvements in productivity per cycle are required in order to meet the economical/industrial standards.





2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (45) ◽  
pp. 22749-22757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiromasa Shiiba ◽  
Nobuyuki Zettsu ◽  
Satoru Kida ◽  
Dae-wook Kim ◽  
Katsuya Teshima

Many fundamental studies have been conducted on the electrochemical and electronic structures in transition metal cation-substituted LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 systems.





2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (11) ◽  
pp. 4025-4033 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Jia ◽  
Bastian Billmann ◽  
Hitoshi Onishi ◽  
Jens Smiatek ◽  
Stephan Roeser ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 1632-1639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Zhao ◽  
Bing Liu ◽  
Yuebing Xu ◽  
Feng Jiang ◽  
Xiaohao Liu

Five-coordinated Rh leads to the over-oxidation of CH4, while four-coordinated Rh stabilizes CH3 and facilitates methanol formation via the CH3OOH intermediate.





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