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steam reforming

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steam reforming
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(Chemistry) Chem a process in which methane from natural gas is heated, with steam, usually with a catalyst, to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen used in organic synthesis and as a fuel
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Although there are chemical ways to convert methane to methanol, which is easy to transport and which is suitable as a raw material for the chemical industry, "the processes commonly used up to now for producing diesel fuel - steam reforming followed by methanol synthesis or Fischer-Tropsch synthesis - are not economical," said Ferdi Schuth, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mulheim an der Ruhr.
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Steam reforming of natural gas is the method most commonly used commercially.
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TNR is a catalyst system designed to facilitate combustion and steam reforming reactions which will balance the heat in and out of a system -- unlike the traditional steam reforming process, in which an external furnace is needed.
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