Selective Oxidation, Reforming and Combustion of Methane over NiO/Ni on Ceria-Zirconia

摘要

Significant quantities of methane occur in remote locations where the economy of scale for commercial reformers is not feasible. Selective oxidation of methane offers an attractive approach to convert these stranded methane reserves to condensable alcohols that can be transported to a central processing facility in pipelines. This contribution analyzes the potential of well dispersed NiO clusters on a redox-active ceria zirconia (CZ) support as catalyst for such a process.