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The development of a simple and commercially advantageous process for the direct conversion of natural gas to more-easily transportable liquid products would be a great prize. In this connection and in common with many others, we became intrigued with the results of Keller and Bhasin (Keller and Bhasin 1982) and a little later with those of Ito and co-workers (Ito et al. 1985), which suggested that it was possible to catalyze the reaction of methane with oxygen to form ethane and, more important, ethylene. This reaction appeared to offer the potential for eliminating the expensive reforming step used in conventional natural gas conversion processes as well as a new route for the production of ethylene (Preuss and Baerns 1987; Jones, Leonard, and Sofranko 1987). Our efforts, described in this chapter, formed part of a substantial CSIRO project that included the process development studies summarized in Chapter 13 of this volume (Edwards, Do, and Tyler, 1990).
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Ekstrom, A. (1992). The Oxidative Coupling of Methane: Reaction Pathways and Their Process Implications. In: Wolf, E.E. (eds) Methane Conversion by Oxidative Processes. Van Nostrand Reinhold Catalysis Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7449-5_4
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