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Oxidation of Dry Methane on the Surface of Oxygen Ion-Conducting Membranes

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The surface exchange limitations of oxygen permeation through dense mixed-conducting membranes enhance membrane stability, enabling the operation of mixed conductors, such as La0.3Sr0.7Co0.8Ga0.2O3-δ (LSCG) and La2Ni0.9Co0.1O4+δ (LNC), under air/dry CH4 gradient up to temperatures as high as 1173–1223 K. Testing of these materials in a model disk-shaped membrane reactor at 1023–1223 K showed high CO2 yields (>75%). In particular, at 1173 K, the CO selectivity was 17% for LNC and 2% for LSCG ceramics, with methane conversion efficiency of 20 and 37% respectively. Similar tendency was observed for a fuel cell-type reactor with yttria-stabilized zirconia solid electrolyte and cermet Ce0.8Gd0.2O2-δ/Pt anode, where decreasing the molar ratio between methane and electrochemically supplied oxygen from approximately 10 to 2 decreases CO/CO2 ratio at the outlet down to 0.3. This behavior suggests significant role of the complete methane oxidation on the interface between an oxygen ion-conducting membrane and gas phase, thus making it necessary to incorporate reforming catalysts in the reactors.

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  1. Department of Ceramics and Glass Engineering, CICECO, University of Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    A.A. Yaremchenko, V.V. Kharton, E.V. Tsipis, J.R. Frade, E.N. Naumovich & F.M.B. Marques

  2. Department of Chemistry, CICECO, University of Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    A.A. Valente & J. Rocha

  3. Institute of Physicochemical Problems, Belarus State University, 14 Leningradskaya Str., 220050, Minsk, Belarus

    E.N. Naumovich

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Yaremchenko, A., Valente, A., Kharton, V. et al. Oxidation of Dry Methane on the Surface of Oxygen Ion-Conducting Membranes. Catalysis Letters 91, 169–174 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:CATL.0000007150.63791.a2

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