Production of Syngas by CO2 Reforming on MxLa1-xNi0.3Al0.7O3-d (M = Li, Na, K) Catalysts - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry.
As we have previously reported from various sources, the "dry reforming" of Methane is a process wherein Methane is reacted with Carbon Dioxide to synthesize higher hydrocarbons. Variants of the technology have been referred to as "bi-reforming" and, "tri-reforming", such as explained best for us so far by Penn State University.
The report we submit herein, from Iran, doesn't make all of that especially clear. But, we assure you, that is what it's all about.
Comment follows very abbreviated excerpts from:
"Production of Syngas By CO2 Reforming
Alieh Khalesi, et. al.; Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran
July 2008; American Chemical Society
Abstract: This paper deals with ... alkali metals ... as catalysts for the dry reforming of methane to produce syngas. ... methane conversions in excess of 90% ... have been achieved."
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We felt obliged to edit out rather extensive lists of chemical formulae for the catalysts which Iran refined to better promote the reaction of Methane with Carbon Dioxide, and to thus achieve conversion rates "in excess of 90%" in the production of "syngas", or, synthesis gas.
And, as you must, by now, know, once we have the syngas, we can catalyze it, via Fischer-Tropsch, and related, technologies to synthesize liquid hydrocarbons.
This is yet another example of the Carbon Dioxide recycling technologies that are being developed around the world, wherein CO2 can be employed in the synthesis of liquid hydrocarbon fuels. We find this example especially compelling since, first, yet again, the needed Methane can itself be synthesized, via the Sabatier technique, from Carbon Dioxide; or, via gasification, from Coal.
Second, this technology is, as herein, being developed by a noted exporter of petroleum; and they are, it seems, looking ahead to the day when the wells at last run dry.
