Abstract
Conventional production of chemicals from methane requires large industrial plants to minimize energy losses and capital costs associated with reforming, synthesis, and product separation steps. The use of renewable electricity as a source of heat for furnaces and the use of electrocatalytic processes to drive energy-intensive chemical transformations promise to displace natural gas combustion as a source of heat and to deliver more compact, economic, efficient, and thus more competitive chemical manufacturing units. Herein, we review the most recent developments on the direct transformation of methane to chemicals using electrochemistry in the past five years. Future declining electricity prices could make electrochemical routes a competitive alternative for the manufacturing of chemicals in small-, medium-, and large-scale plants.
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