- According to the research reporter of ISNA, the researchers in the Iranian
university of Science and Industry managed to synthetically produce a durable
catalyst for the process of reforming Methane and Carbon Dioxide.
Mehran, a graduate from the chemistry department of the Science and Industry
University said: This catalyst is used in petrochemical industries to transform
the natural gas into synthetic gas (mixture of Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide).
The reforming process is normally done by using vapour bath or partial
the Chemistry Department of Kashan University added: With the new catalyst the
process is done in a dry environment and has the advantage of using two green
house gases, namely Methane and Carbon Dioxide.
said: In conventional methods of reforming using vapour bath, the ratio of
Hydrogen to Carbon Monoxide is between thee and six, which can be obtained by
the dry reforming process as well.
of the scientific board of Kashan University said: The main difficulty in the
reforming process is that the catalysts becomes inactive very quickly; but in
the new material, the base for the catalysts is Zirconium Dioxide instead of
Nickel which is produced by using the nanotechnology synthetically.
The conventional catalysts become inactive after five hours but the synthetic
ones can last more than 1550 hours, which has been tested. There has not been
such sustainability in such catalysts up to now.
of the chemistry department added: The use of nanotechnology in this process
makes it feasible for industrial production on a larger scale.
It should be
noted this scheme was the subject of the Doctoral thesis of Mehran Rezaii with
the consultation of Dr Seyed Mehdi Alavi and Dr Saeed Sahebdel and the
collaboration of the Danish company Haldor Topsoe A/S and Chinese CNPC company
(Chinese Petrol University); the results of these researches have been published
in more than 10 articles and presented in various international conferences.
article published in Persian by
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