Producing Methane from Hydrogen

swish4fish

Puting aside politics and energy considerations, what is the chemistry of producing Methane from Hydrogen? What catalyst or special equipment would be needed? Thanks

PHY-101

Are you sure you wanna produce methane from hydrogen, and not the opposite?!

Borek

Check making gasoline from coal (gasification), while that's not exactly the same, similar methods apply.

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chemisttree

One could take hydrogen and CO2 and react it in the following manner (search "water gas shift"):

CO + H₂O <---> CO₂ + H₂

and combine it in the following sequence (search "Fischer-Tropsch"):

(2n+1)H2 + nCO → C_nH_(2n+2) + nH₂O

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swish4fish	Producing Methane from Hydrogen Tweet Puting aside politics and energy considerations, what is the chemistry of producing Methane from Hydrogen? What catalyst or special equipment would be needed? Thanks

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chemisttree Recognitions: Gold Member Homework Help Science Advisor	Producing Methane from Hydrogen One could take hydrogen and CO2 and react it in the following manner (search "water gas shift"): CO + H₂O <---> CO₂ + H₂ and combine it in the following sequence (search "Fischer-Tropsch"): (2n+1)H2 + nCO → C_nH_(2n+2) + nH₂O