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Method for the production of light hydrocarbons from gas with high methane content, a solid oxide fuel cell used for the production of light hydrocarbons from gas with high methane content, and a catalyst for the production of light hydrocarbons from gas with high methane content

Patent number: 9281525

Abstract: The present invention refers to the conversion of gaseous or gasifiable fuels with high methane content, such as natural gas, biogas, synthesis gas or gas originated from various industrial process rejects, with or without prior desulfurization and elimination of other contaminants, in a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC), with special anodes, based on mixed oxides or metal oxides with a perovskite type structure, either or not nano structured, into light hydrocarbons, primarily ethylene and ethane.

Type: Grant

Filed: June 29, 2009

Date of Patent: March 8, 2016

Assignees: OXITENO S.A. INDUSTRIA E COMERCIO, INSTITUTO ALBERTO LUIZ COIMBRA DE POSGRADUACAO E PESQUISA DE ENGENHARIA-COPPE/UFRJ

Inventors: Paulo Emilio Valadão De Miranda, Luis Guilherme Desá, Taísa Eva Fuziger Gutierres, Selma Aparecida Venâncio, Isabela Caldeira Leite Leocádio, Maria Auxiliadora Scaramelo Baldanza, Martin Schmal, Valéria Perfeito Vicentini