Dry Reforming of Methane (DRM)

The global climatic variations and environmental protection regulations stress on the reduction of discharge of green-house gases into the atmosphere. Among the green-house gases, CO2 and CH4 emissions have been blamed to be the leading driving factors that cause the phenomenon of global warming. The carbon dioxide or dry reforming of methane (DRM) has gained special attention since the last decade, because this process not only consumes and/or mitigates two GHG (CO2 and CH4) but also produces syngas (a mixture of CO and H2) with H2/CO molar ratio closer to unity which is more suitable for production of valuable synthetic liquid fuels and oxygenated chemicals via oxo- and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis processes.