Hydrogen and Carbon Production by Methane Catalytic Cracking
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2025) | Viewed by 1732
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gas processing; adsorption; catalysis; mineral processing; gasification; pyrolysis; combustion; microwave application; solid waste; waste water; air pollution; process modeling and simulation
Interests: catalysis and reaction engineering–in the areas of oxidative cracking/dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons; catalytic cracking of hydrocarbons, oil to chemicals; chemical looping; blue hydrogen; ammonia decomposition to hydrogen; biomass/heavy oil gasification; pyrolysis of waste materials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The energy transition from fossil fuels is occurring at an unexpectedly rapid pace. Green hydrogen is the agreed path forward to facilitate this transition. Mega projects are being planned for the decades ahead, and hence, the necessary infrastructure and logistics need to be developed to achieve the free availability of hydrogen in the market. The only feasible way of hydrogen production in the industry is steam methane reformation (SMR), which is energy-intensive and involves substantial carbon emissions. As an alternate way of facilitating a smooth transition from fossil-based hydrogen to green hydrogen, methane can be catalytically cracked to hydrogen and solid carbon without carbon emissions at atmospheric pressure, thermodynamically demanding only one-fifth the energy used in SMR. However, the economic feasibility of this process largely depends on the development of a catalyst that can offer high conversion and stability, as well as the development of suitable separation processes.
The topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Development of a catalyst that offers high conversion and stability for methane cracking
- Characterization and quantification of carbon nanostructures formed through the cracking of methane
- Separation of carbon nanostructures from the catalyst
- Kinetics and mechanism of the methane cracking reaction
- Separation of hydrogen and methane
- Regeneration and recycling of the catalyst
- Techno-economic feasibility of the methane cracking process
- Application of the carbon nanostructures formed through methane cracking
Prof. Dr. Chandrasekar Srinivasakannan
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Mozahar Hossain
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- methane
- hydrogen
- catalytic cracking
- carbon nanostructures
- green energy
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