This self-contained reference covers the chemistry, process chemistry,
technology, engineering, and economics of methane conversion, including its
environmental impact and commercial exploitation. Beginning with methane's
availability and increasing importance as an environmentally acceptable natural
resource alternative and feedstock, Methane and Its Derivatives elucidates
derivative production by synthesis gas and methane conversion routes discusses
methanol and ammonia synthesis, synthetic gasoline, and oxygenate fuels
technologies presents data on critical, supercritical, and transport properties,
chemical reactions and equilibria, and solubility introduces recent gas
engineering techniques, from NOx and SOx removal, and membrane gas separation,
to multiphase transport phenomena and cryogenic processes surveys contemporary
analytical chemistry and trace component identification methodologies highlights
current trends of