Gas-Phase Oxidation of Natural and Associated Gases.

A study on the growing importance of gas chemistry to the world economy and the resulting need to create new catalytic and non-catalytic technologies for converting natural gas and other hydrocarbon gases into chemical products is performed. Existing and promising non-catalytic processes of converting them into synthesis gas are discussed, along with direct ways of obtaining chemical products from methane, the main component of natural gas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]