Siluria looks to go commercial with new ethylene production process.

摘要

The US company is planning to build a demonstration plant for its new technology that produces ethylene from natural gas. Ordinarily, the process of oxidative coupling can only take place at high temperatures, but Siluria Technologies has found a way to ease off the heat, possibly making the process an economical alternative to ethane cracking. Using methods pioneered by MIT's Angela Belcher which utilize viruses as a design tool, Siluria has developed a nanowire catalyst that enables oxidative coupling to take place at relatively low temperatures.