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Partial oxidation of methane to formaldehyde on MoO3, Fe2O3 and ferromolybdenum catalysts
 

Catalysis is the increase in the rate of a chemical reaction due to the participation of an additional substance called a catalyst. With a catalyst, reactions occur faster and require less activation energy. Because catalysts are not consumed in the catalyzed reaction, they can continue to catalyze the reaction of further quantities of reactant. Often only tiny amounts are required.
 

One of the main challenges for catalysis has been direct methane conversion to useful products such as methanol and formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is currently produced by a three-step industrial process with syngas and metha- nol as intermediate products. MoO , Fe O and Fe (MoO ) catalysts were used with four different Mo/Fe molar 3 2 3 2 4 3 ratios (0.5, 1, 1.5, 2) in this work. The ferromolybdenum catalyst was prepared by coprecipitation. Pure oxides are more active; however they are not formaldehyde selective, but carbon oxide (CO, CO ) selective. The ferro- molybdenum catalysts showed better HCHO selectivity at low conversions; the molybdenum oxide content did not show increased in catalytic activity. Increased reaction temperature did not increase formaldehyde selectivity.

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