AN INTEGRATED PROCESS TO PRODUCE HYDROCARBONS FROM NATURAL GAS CONTAINING CARBON DIOXIDE

摘要

A process for producing higher hydrocarbons from methane which contains carbon dioxide which comprises: (a) contacting methane, with a halogen, preferably bromine, under process conditions sufficient to produce a monohalomethane, preferably monobromomethane, which contains unreacted carbon dioxide, (b) reacting the monohalomethane in the presence of a coupling catalyst to produce higher hydrocarbons which contain carbon dioxide, and (c) separating carbon dioxide from the higher hydrocarbons.