Mechanistic insights into collision induced and catalytic activation of methane from first principles

• Main Author: Varghese, Jithin John
• Other Authors: Samir Hemant Mushrif
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Chemical engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/69355
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Methane is the primary component of natural gas, coal bed gases, shale gas and natural gas hydrates, and its commercially recoverable amounts exceed those of petroleum and coal by a few orders of magnitude. The strong C-H bonds of methane make its selective and controlled activation/dissociation dif...