Catalytic conversion of light alkanes
The second Quarterly Report of 1992 on the Catalytic Conversion of Light Alkanes reviews the work done between April 1, 1992 and June 31, 1992 on the Cooperative Agreement. The mission of this work is to devise a new catalyst which can be used in a simple economic process to convert the light alkanes in natural gas to oxygenate products that can either be used as clean-burning, high octane liquid fuels, as fuel components or as precursors to liquid hydrocarbon uwspomdon fuel. During the past quarter we have continued to design, prepare, characterize and test novel catalysts for the mild selective reaction of light hydrocarbons with air or oxygen to produce alcohols directly. These catalysts are designed to form active metal oxo (MO) species and to be uniquely active for the homolytic cleavage of the carbon-hydrogen bonds in light alkanes producing intermediates which can form alcohols. We continue to investigate three molecular environments for the active catalytic species that we are trying to generate: electron-deficient macrocycles (PHASE I), polyoxometallates (PHASE II), and regular oxidic lattices including zeolites and related structures as well as other molecular surface structures having metal oxo groups (PHASE I).
- Research Organization:
- Sun Refining and Marketing Co., Marcus Hook, PA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC21-90MC26029
- OSTI ID:
- 7090637
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/MC/26029-3272; ON: DE93009650
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ALCOHOLS
ALKANES
CARBOXYLIC ACIDS
CATALYSTS
CATALYTIC EFFECTS
COMPLEXES
CONVERSION
DATA
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENERGY SOURCES
EXPERIMENTAL DATA
FLUIDS
FOSSIL FUELS
FUEL GAS
FUELS
GAS FUELS
GASES
HETEROCYCLIC ACIDS
HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROXY COMPOUNDS
INFORMATION
INORGANIC ION EXCHANGERS
ION EXCHANGE MATERIALS
MATERIALS
MINERALS
NATURAL GAS
NUMERICAL DATA
ORGANIC ACIDS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
PERFORMANCE TESTING
PORPHYRINS
PROGRESS REPORT
REACTION INTERMEDIATES
SILICATE MINERALS
SYNTHESIS
TESTING
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPLEXES
ZEOLITES