New Horizons of Small-Tonnage Gas Chemistry

S. M. Aldoshin^а, V. S. Arutyunov^а^,^b, V. I. Savchenko^а, I. V. Sedov^а, and I. A. Makaryan^а*Translated by B. Alekseev

^аInstitute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Russia

^bSemenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence to: e-mail: director@icp.ac.ru; arutyunov@chph.ras.ru; vsavch@icp.ac.ru; isedov@icp.ac.ru; irenmak@icp.ac.ru

* RAS Academician Sergei Mikhailovich Aldoshin is director of the RAS Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics (RAS IPCP). Vladimir Sergeevich Arutyunov, Dr. Sci. (Chem.), is head of the Joint Laboratory of Technologies of Gas Chemical Processes, RAS IPCP, and the RAS Institute of Chemical Physics (RAS ICP). Valery Ivanovich Savchenko, Dr. Sci. (Chem.), is chief research fellow at RAS IPCP. Igor Vladimirovich Sedov, Cand. Sci. (Chem.), is head of the Chemical Technology Department at RAS IPCP. Iren Armenovna Makaryan, Cand. Sci. (Chem.), is a leading research fellow at RAS IPCP.

Received 12 January, 2016

Abstract—The growing role of natural gas and, consequently, gas chemistry in the economy of the 21st century requires the formation of new gas chemical processes, more flexible in relation to raw materials and end products and profitable even for fine chemicals. Basic research and development conducted at the RAS Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics jointly with the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, RAS, could become the basis for the creation of a new generation of gas chemical technologies.

Keywords: natural gas, associated gas, gas chemistry, synthesis gas, partial oxidation, oxygenates, methanol.

DOI: 10.1134/S1019331616040067