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Partial oxidation of methane in a multistage-compression chemical reactor

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A theory of noncatalytic partial oxidation of methane in a superadiabatic cyclic compression chemical reactor using the operating principle of internal combustion engine is developed. It is shown that in a two-stroke reactor the conversion of methane to syngas with a H2/CO ratio equal to 2 reaches 0.95 to 0.99 at low mixture compression ratios of 10 to 15. The energy efficiency (product-yield-to-power ratio) reaches 3 m3 of syngas per 1 kWh of power consumed.

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  1. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Kosygina 4, Moscow, 119991, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V.M. Shmelev, V.M. Nikolaev, 2008, published in Teoreticheskie Osnovy Khimicheskoi Tekhnologii, 2008, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 21–28.

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Shmelev, V.M., Nikolaev, V.M. Partial oxidation of methane in a multistage-compression chemical reactor. Theor Found Chem Eng 42, 19–25 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S004057950801003X

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