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A New Catalyst May Make Natural Gases More Eco-Friendly By Helping Them Burn Cleaner
Even though natural gas is considered “cleanest” of all fossil fuels, it’s still not entirely clean as it produces some amount of greenhouse gases on combustion. However, there might be a way to make the gas burn even cleaner by using a catalyst.
The 10-element catalyst, being called a Swiss army knife catalyst, will help burn the methane in natural gas at a much lower temperature.
“The more efficiently we burn methane and the less energy we use to burn it, the less greenhouse gas and pollutants it produces. Anything we can do to get this combustion temperature down is an environmental win,” said Reza Shahbazian-Yassar.