Hydrocarbon Processing

Bottled lightning makes a cleaner fuel: Research shows how bursts of plasma convert methane into methanol without high heat and pressures

Enhancing with argon. To further enhance the process, the team diluted methane with argon, which is typically an inert noble ...
The Debrief

Clean Energy Breakthrough: Bottled Lightning Produces Methanol in New “Bubble Reactor”

Lightning in a bottle, in a literal sense, may be the key to new, clean energy by reducing carbon emissions in methanol ...
EurekAlert!

International team of scientists turns methane into methanol at room temperature

A team of researchers from Stanford University and the University of Leuven in Belgium has further elucidated an intriguing process that could be an important step toward a methanol fuel economy with ...
Science Daily

Carbon dioxide-to-methanol process improved by catalyst

Dramatic improvements have been made to the process of converting carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, to methanol, a fuel and building block for a wide range of everyday materials, according to ...