Natural Gas Conversion II

1. Plenary Lectures. Recent advances in the oxidative coupling of methane (J.H. Lunsford). The relevance of combustion theory to the homogeneous oxidation of methane (B.F. Gray et al.). Aspects of CO2 reforming of methane (J.R. Rostrup-Nielsen). Conversion of natural gas to transportation fuels via the Shell Middle Distillate Process (V.M.H. van Wechem, M.M.G. Senden). New uses of methane (K. Fujimoto). Current ideas and future prospects in metal-catalyzed methane conversion (R.H. Crabtree). Keynote Lectures. Methane; fuel or feedstock? (J. Sofranko). Catalytic reduction of NOx with CH4 and excess O2 (J.N. Armor). Conversion of natural gas to electricity in fuel cells (K. Foger). A selection of Contributed Papers. Performance analysis of bubbling fluidized bed reactors for the catalytic oxidative coupling of methane (K.T. Do et al.). The oxidative coupling of methane over tin promoted lithium magnesium oxide: A TAP investigation (E.P.J. Mallens et al.). Isotope exchange and volumetric studies of methane activation on rare-earth oxides (S. Lascombe et al.). Carbon dioxide reforming of methane in the presence of nickel and platinum catalysts supported on ZrO2 (K. Seshan et al.). The reforming of methane with carbon dioxide - current status and future applications (J.H. Edwards, A.M. Maitra). A comparative assessment of catalytic partial oxidation and steam reforming for the production of methanol from natural gas (N. Dave, G.A. Foulds). BHP petroleum's methanol research project (I. Rees). Conversion of methanol to olefins over SAPO-17 molecular seive (S. Nawaz et al.). Offshore Fischer-Tropsch economics (V.N. Ravavarapu et al.). Selective conversion of syngas into light olefins in the presence of bifunctional catalysts (J. Barrault, Y. Avila). Partial oxidation of methane over iron molbydate catalyst (K. Otsuka et al.). Organometallic methane activation: Functionalization by aqueous platinum complexes (J.A. Labinger et al.). A novel, high yield system for the oxidation of methane to methanol (J.A. Periana et al.). Air separation for off-shore gas conversion (C.C. White et al.). Conversion of the natural gas constituent ethane using modified ZSM-5 zeolites (R. Roessner, A. Hagen). Author index.