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Methanation is the conversion of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide (CO x) to methane (CH 4) through hydrogenation. The methanation reactions of CO x were first discovered by Sabatier and Senderens in 1902. [1] CO x methanation has many practical applications.
Hydrocarbonate is an archaic term for water gas composed of carbon monoxide and hydrogen generated by passing steam through glowing coke.Hydrocarbonate was classified as a factitious air and explored for therapeutic properties by some eighteenth-century physicians, including Thomas Beddoes and James Watt. [5]
Additional hydrogen is obtained by the reaction of CO with water via the water-gas shift reaction: CO + H 2 O ⇌ CO 2 + H 2. This reaction is mildly exothermic (produces heat, ΔH r = −41 kJ/mol). Methane is also subjected to free-radical chlorination in the production of chloromethanes, although methanol is a more typical precursor. [35]
Steam carbon. C + H 2 O -> CO + H 2. Water-gas shift. CO + H 2 O -> H 2 + CO 2. Hydro-gasification. 2H 2 + C -> CH 4. The combination of carbon (C) from the carbon feedstock, water (H 2 O) from steam, and the catalyst, produces pure methane and a pure stream of carbon dioxide (CO 2) which is 100% captured in the system and available for sequestration.
In the conversion of carbon dioxide to useful materials, the water–gas shift reaction is used to produce carbon monoxide from hydrogen and carbon dioxide. This is sometimes called the reverse water–gas shift reaction. [20] Water gas is defined as a fuel gas consisting mainly of carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H 2).
Steam can be added to the reaction in order to increase the generation of H 2, via the water-gas shift reaction (WGS) and/or steam methane reforming. The CLR process can produce a syngas with a H 2:CO molar ratio of 2:1 or higher, which is suitable for Fischer–Tropsch synthesis, methanol synthesis, or hydrogen production. The reduced oxygen ...
In order to obtain the mixture of CO and H 2 required for the Fischer–Tropsch process, methane (main component of natural gas) may be subjected to partial oxidation which yields a raw synthesis gas mixture of mostly carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen gas (and sometimes water and nitrogen). [4]
If, however, hydrogen is the desired end-product, the coal gas (primarily the CO product) undergoes the water gas shift reaction where more hydrogen is produced by additional reaction with water vapor: CO + H 2 O → CO 2 + H 2. Although other technologies for coal gasification currently exist, all employ, in general, the same chemical processes.