Figure 5
From: Partial oxidation of methane to methanol on boron nitride at near critical acetonitrile

Variation of O2 based methanol yield with acetonitrile: O2 ratio and boron nitride loading. The graph does not illustrate 2.30: 1 h-BN to oxygen molar ratio, 8.2 MeCN: O2 ratio reaction which resulted in 17% yield. All runs were conducted with the specified amount of BN, cold feed; 118 mmol of CH4, 7 mmol of O2, 163 mmol of He. The amount of acetonitrile was varied (0 mmol, 19 mmol, 28 mmol, 57 mmol, 76 mmol, 95 mmol) and heated to 275 °C, with no dwell time, and 60 rpm stirring.