A breakthrough reactor designed by University of Michigan engineers efficiently converts natural gas into propylene, promising substantial cost savings in the production of essential industrial and consumer products. The innermost tube of the reactor splits propane into hydrogen gas and propylene and allows the hydrogen gas to escape into the outermost shell of the reactor. That hydrogen gas can be burned to further drive the reactions. Credit: James Wortman, Linic Lab, University of Michigan. Rawan Almallahi, a doctoral graduate of chemical engineering and the study’s first author, is preparing a reactor for a performance test inside a furnace. Suljo Linic, the Martin Lewis Perl Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering and the study’s corresponding author, assists Almallahi. Credit: Sandra Swisher, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan.
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