Oxidative Coupling of Methane

The sections in this article are Introduction Fundamentals of the OCM Reaction Catalytic Materials and Their Performance Mechanistic Aspects Oxygen Species in the OCM Reaction Structural Defects and Related Physicochemical Properties New Approaches in Catalyst Design Reaction and Process Engineering Chemical Kinetics Modeling, Simulation and Performance of Catalytic Reactors Distributed Oxygen Supply to a Catalytic Fixed-Bed Reactor Counter-Current Moving-Bed Reactor Fluidized-Bed Reactors Membrane Reactors Process Concepts Conclusion Keywords: methane; oxidative coupling; natural gas; ethane; ethene; OCM catalysts; kinetics; mechanism; reactor design; product separation