The oxidative coupling reaction of methane (OCM) for direct, one-step conversion of methane to ethylene has been known for many years but never commercialized. Siluria Technologies has succeeded in designing a commercially viable OCM process by bringing together scientific advances of the past decade that were unavailable to earlier researchers in this chemistry. The advances are (1) Nanowire Catalyst Design - a synthetic method that permits the influencing of catalyst properties by changing the active sites, and which can be made under commercially scalable synthetic conditions, and (2) High-throughput Screening – that allows for measuring gas-to-gas reactions orders of magnitude faster than in traditional reaction screening.<br/> <br/>Siluria's R&D and engineering work on the reaction has focused on commercially viable process conditions and reactor configurations. Earlier work on this highly exothermic reaction used catalysts produced by conventional bulk methods and resulted in temperatures, pressures, catalyst lifetimes, and other reaction conditions that were outside of a practical commercial process window.<br/> <br/>The recent and rapid pace of natural gas discovery and development in North America and other regions provides a very strong business case for the deployment of this technology to produce on-purpose ethylene or liquid fuels.

Natural gas to ethylene in one step: Siluria technologies OCM (oxidative coupling of methane)

249th National Meeting (2015)

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