Oxidation of methane over heterogeneous catalysts.

摘要

Higher hydrocarbons are produced from methane by reacting the methane at elevated temperature, suitably in the range from 600 to 800 DEG C, with an oxygen-containing gas having a ratio of methane to oxygen of greater than the stoichiometric ratio for complete combustion in the presence as catalyst of a lithium-doped material which under the reaction conditions is a physically base-stable, non-melting, oxygen-stable compound of an element of Groups III to VIII of the Periodic Table of the Elements including the rare earth elements.