Review on dry reforming of methane, a potentially more environmentally-friendly approach to the increasing natural gas exploitation

被引:408
作者
Lavoie, Jean-Michel [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Sherbrooke, Fac Genie, Dept Genie Chim & Genie Biotechnol, 2500 Boul Univ, Sherbrooke, PQ J1K 2R1, Canada
关键词
dry reforming; syngas; heterogeneous catalyst; plasma; electricity;
D O I
10.3389/fchem.2014.00081
中图分类号
O6 [化学];
学科分类号
0703 ;
摘要
With the actual growth of the natural gas industry in the US as well as the potential and availability of this non-renewable carbon source worldwide, reforming of methane gas is getting increasing attention. Methane can be used for the production of heat or electricity, as well, it can be converted to syngas, a building block that could lead to the production of liquid fuels and chemicals, a very promising pathway in light of the increasing price of oil. Amongst the different reforming techniques, dry reforming could represent a very interesting approach both to valorize a cheap source or carbon (CO2) as well as to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the increasing worldwide fossil-based methane consumption. In this short review, attention will be given to the thermodynamics of dry reforming followed by an investigation on dry reforming using heterogeneous catalyst by focusing on the most popular elements used in literature for dry reforming. Attention will as well be given to other emerging techniques that may allow countering at one point the high thermodynamic penalties that accompanies conversion of methane using carbon dioxide.
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