Selective oxidation of methane to formaldehyde over doubly copper–iron doped zinc oxide catalysts via a selectivity shift mechanism
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 3,p. 185-186
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39910000185
Abstract
Formaldehyde formation from a CH4-air mixture (1 : 1) is induced by a selectivity switch from C2 hydrocarbon products over ZnO to the oxygenated product over doubly Cu–Fe doped ZnO to yield up to 76 g of CH2O (kg cat.)–1 h–1.Keywords
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