Example Ethane to Ethylene

Tertiary screening or traditional laboratory-scale reactors are used to evaluate the secondary leads. Depending on the richness of the data generated in the secondary screen, the tertiary screen may be focused on more complete analysis, or may be focused on other aspects of catalyst performance such as lifetime, susceptibility to poisons, or hydrodynamics. 

A catalyst design strategy based on ternary metal oxides with catalytic and chemical constraints limited the desired set of catalyst compositions to about 100000, a number that could be tested in the scanning mass spectrometer [46]. A feed gas mixture of C2H6, 02, and Ar (4 1 5) was created using a set of digital 

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Direct use of oxygen as a means of dehydrogenating, for example, ethane to ethylene. Oxydehydrogenation has successful commercial applications in the conversion of n-butenes to butadiene (e.g., as in the Oxo-D process referred to earlier), but not yet for the production of ethylene or propylene. 

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