Chemistry Letters, Vol.49, No.3, 236-239, 2020
Direct Dehydrogenative Conversion of Methane to Hydrogen, Nanocarbons, Ethane, and Ethylene on Pd/SiO2 Catalysts
This study discovered that Pd/SiO2 simultaneously catalyzes two different types of dehydrogenation reactions: (1) thermal decomposition of CH4 and (2) non-oxidative CH4 coupling. We demonstrated that useful C-2 hydrocarbons can be synthesized as by-products during H-2 and nanocarbon production via the thermal catalytic decomposition of CH4.