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Lower alkanes dehydrogenation: Strategies and reaction routes to corresponding alkenes

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Title Lower alkanes dehydrogenation: Strategies and reaction routes to corresponding alkenes
 
Creator Maity, Sudip
 
Subject Fuel Scinece
 
Description Advances in fossil fuel exploration have continued to drive availability of lower alkane feedstocks for the chemical industry. Lower alkanes are potential precursors to the plethora of basic organic chemicals. However, conversion of lower alkanes to valuable chemicals often involves indirect or multi-step reaction routes. Developing direct routes to obtain key organic chemicals from lower alkanes would benefit industry. Dehydrogenation of C2 and C3 alkanes are particularly of interest as alternatives to steam cracking and fluid catalytic cracking for obtaining C2 and C3 alkenes. This review highlights developments in non-oxidative, autothermal and oxidative dehydrogenation of C2 and C3 alkanes.We examine reaction routes to dehydrogenation of lower alkenes, and analyze the C–H activation mechanismof commercial catalysts in order to gain insight into rational design of improved catalysts for C2 and C3 alkane dehydrogenation at lower temperatures.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2016
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://cimfr.csircentral.net/1836/1/maity.pdf
Maity, Sudip (2016) Lower alkanes dehydrogenation: Strategies and reaction routes to corresponding alkenes. Fuel Processing Technology, 149. pp. 239-255. ISSN 0378-3820
 
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