Dry reforming of methane to syngas: a potential alternative process for value added chemicals-a techno-economic perspective.

During the past decade, there has been increasing global concern over the rise of anthropogenic CO emission into the Earth's atmosphere (J Air Waste Manage Assoc 53:645-715, 2003). The utilization of CO to produce any valuable product is need of the hour. The production of syngas from CO and CH seems to be one of the promising alternatives in terms of industrial utilization, as it offers several advantages: (a) mitigation of CO, (b) transformation of natural gas and CO into valuable syngas, and (c) producing syngas with H/CO ratio 1 which may further be used for the production of valuable petrochemicals (J Air Waste Manage Assoc 53:645-715, 2003).