Owing to the existence of large reserves of natural gasaround the world, a lot of research focuses on thedevelopment of processes that generate gas to liquidhydrocarbons fuels (GTL) and valuable oxygenatedchemicals from this raw material. The classical GTLroute encloses both the synthesis gas generation fromnatural gas (methane) and the synthesis gas conversionto liquid fuels [1]. In these processes, the synthesis gasproduction section is considered to account for around60% of the total capital cost [2,3]. Thus, the economicalviability of this process relies strongly on the decrease ofthe costs of synthesis gas generation and alternativeroutes to syngas production can be considerateFor many years, the steam reforming of methane hasbeen a major line of production of synthesis gas (H2/CO), a product of great industrial interest. Now, muchresearch is in progress on methods that enable thereforming of methane with carbon dioxide, because thelow H2/CO ratio is more suitable for production ofmethanol and the Fischer–Tropsch synthesis [4]. As abonus, this reaction also has an important environmental advantage in that both methane and carbondioxide are greenhouse gases [5,6]
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