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US 5,695,618 AGranted
Oxidative coupling of methane on octahedral molecular sieve
AssigneeTexaco Inc.
InventorsChi-Lin O'Young, Yan-Fei Shen, Mark William Simon, Steven Lawrence Suib, Richard Paul Zerger
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Abstract
A method of oxidatively coupling methane onto a manganese oxide molecular sieve comprising: (a) passing methane through a microwave plasma activation flow reaction zone onto a manganese oxide molecular sieve, whereby polymer-free methane coupled products are produced; and, (b) recovering the polymer-free methane coupled products.
Claims7
A method of oxidatively coupling methane onto a manganese molecular sieve comprising:
- (a) passing methane through a microwave plasma activation flow reaction zone onto a manganese oxide molecular sieve catalyst to produce polymer-free methane coupled products, the products containing ethylene, ethane, acetylene, propane, (C.sub.4) hydrocarbons and (C.sub.5) hydrocarbons;
- and,
- (b) recovering said polymer-free methane coupled products.
A method of oxidatively coupling methane onto a manganese molecular sieve comprising:
- (a) passing methane through a microwave plasma activation flow reaction zone onto a manganese oxide molecular sieve catalyst wherein said molecular sieve is todorokite, hollandite, or substituted octahedral molecular sieve to produce polymer-free methane coupled products, the products containing ethylene, ethane, acetylene, propane, (C.sub.4) hydrocarbons and (C.sub.5) hydrocarbons;
- and,
- (b) recovering said polymer-free methane coupled products.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.