Processing of natural and casing-head gases by the gas-phase oxidation

The paper considers the growing importance of gas chemistry for the world economy and the related necessity of developing new, particularly noncatalytic technologies for the conversion of natural gas and other hydrocarbon gases into chemical products. The available and promising noncatalytic processes of their conversion into syngas as well as the direct methods for the synthesis of chemical products from methane, which is the main component of natural gas, are discussed.