Brief description of the thermal conversion of methane in weight hydrocarbons molecular more students, reactor for the implementation of the process and advantages of the reactor.

摘要

1. Process for thermally converting methane into hydrocarbons with higher molecular weights in a ceramic reaction zone with a series of juxtaposed channels grouped in rows and extending over at least a part of the total reaction zone parallel to its axis, said rows of channels being non adjacent towards one another, the reaction zone also comprising, on one hand, a heating zone which substantially surrounds said rows of channels either on said part of the reaction zone or on a part of the length of said reaction zone when said channels cover the whole length of the reaction zone, and, on the other hand, a cooling zone which is an extension of said heating zone, characterized in that a gas containing methane is circulated in the channels of said rows, the heating zone is heated with an electric power supply through successive, independant transverse sections which are substantially perpendicular to the axis of said reaction zone and substantially parallel to the plane of said rows and tight towards the channels of the reaction zone, a cooling fluid is introduced into said cooling zone and said hydrocarbons with higher molecular weights are collected at the end of the reaction zone.