The greatest challenge of our times is to identify low cost and environmentally friendly
alternative energy sources to fossil fuels. From this point of view, the decarbonization of …

Methane (CH4) is an attractive energy source and important greenhouse gas. Therefore,
from the economic and environmental point of view, scientists are working hard to activate …

Hydrogen will play an integral role in achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. Many studies
have been focusing on green hydrogen, but this method is highly electricity intensive …

Co-gasification of waste plastic and corn stover into hydrogen is an effective way of reducing
hydrogen cost and carbon footprint. However, current gasification technologies are energy …

Native starches are commonly modified for desired properties because of their limited
applications. Among various modifications, microwave irradiation has been gaining strong …

Microwave heating (MWH) transforms energy from an electromagnetic wave to heat. In
contrast to conventional heating (CH) mechanisms that use slower heat transfer processes …

The quest for transition to clean energy sources and intensified chemical processes has led
to growing interest in microwave-heated reactors. Microwave generated from renewable …

The quantitative effects of the pores in Mo-impregnated zeolites on their catalytic activity and
stability during methane dehydroaromatization (MDA) were investigated. For this, MCM-22 …

Native starch has poor stability and usually requires modification to expand its industrial
application range. Commonly used methods are physical, chemical, enzymatic and …

Highlights•Electricity-based reactors for methane valorization.•Electrified reactors
performance comparison with respect to ethylene production.•Technology benchmarking by …