Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Methane as a Source of Energy: Enhancing the Catalytic Combustion Process by Electrochemical Promotion Phenomenon
(Carmen Jiménez Borja, Nuria Gutiérrez, Fernando Dorado and Jose Luis Valverde, Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Av. Camilo José Cela, Ciudad Real, Spain)
Chapter 2. High Resolution Spectra of Methane and Interfering Gases and their Application to the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Simulation in the Methane Concentration Retrieval Tasks
(T. Yu. Chesnokova, V.A. Kapitanov, Yu. N. Ponomarev and K. Yu. Osipov, V.E. Zuev Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia)
Chapter 3. Methane Cycling Microorganisms in Soils from the Peruvian Amazon River Basin
(Ekaterina Tikhonova, Anna Kizilova, Valery Galchenko and Irina Kravchenko, Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
Chapter 4. Biogeochemical Cycling of Methane in the Sevastopol Coastal Area, Black Sea
(T.V. Malakhova, L.V. Malakhova, V.N. Egorov, N.V. Pimenov, Yu. G. Artemov, S.B. Gulin, T.A. Kanapatsky and P.A. Sigalevich, A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Sevastopol, Ukraine, and others)
Chapter 5. Synthesis and Characterization of CeAlO<sub>3</sub> Phase: Role in Ni Catalysts for Methane Reforming Reactions
(Hongjing Wu and Leonarda F. Liotta, Institute for The Study of Nanostructured Materials (ISMN)-CNR, Via Ugo La Malfa, Palermo, Italy, and others)
Chapter 6. Complete Methane Oxidation on Supported Palladium Catalysts: Steady State Isotopic Transient Kinetic Analysis
(Marek Rotko and Andrzej Machocki, University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Technology, Lublin, Poland)
Chapter 7. Effects of Feed Strategies on Anaerobic Sequencing Batch Reactors Applied to Biomethane Production
(Giovanna Lovato, José Alberto Domingues Rodrigues, Suzana Maria Ratusznei and Marcelo Zaiat, Departamento de Hidráulica e Saneamento, Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Carlos-SP, Brasil, and others)
Chapter 8. Bio-Inspired Methane Oxidation
(A.A. Shteinman, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia)
Chapter 9. Evaluation of Methane Emissions Generated by the Use of Compressed Natural Gas in the the Transport Sector
(M.S. Sthel, G.R. Lima, M.G. da Silva and H. Vargas, Laboratório de Ciências Físicas – LCFIS, Centro de Ciência e Tecnologia –CCT, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense –UENF, Av. Alberto Lamego, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
Chapter 10. New Strategy of Methane Analysis: Forensic Applications
(Vincent Varlet, Forensic Toxicology and Chemistry Unit, University Center of Legal Medicine Lausanne-Geneva, Switzerland)
Chapter 11. Effects of Hydrogen and Water Vapor Additions on Emissions of Turbulent Methane Flame Spread on Corner Walls
(Nadjib Ghiti, Department of Industrial Maintenance and Transport, Algerian Petroleum Institute, IAP- School of Skikda, les Platanes Filfila, Algeria)
Chapter 12. Methane Emissions from Ruminants in the Tropics: Implications for Global Warming and Options For Mitigation
(J.C. Ku-Vera, J.R. Canul-Solis, A.T. Piñeiro-Vázquez, E.G. Briceño-Poot, J.A. Alayón-Gamboa, A.J. Ayala-Burgos, F.J. Solorio-Sánchez, C.F. Aguilar-Pérez, L. Ramírez-Avilés and O.A. Castelán-Ortega, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México, and others)
Index