A new pathway of gas-to-liquid conversion

directly from methane and carbon dioxide

was established recently using a catalytic dielectric-barrier discharge (DBD) with zeolite. Direct fuel synthesis becomes possible at reaction conditions close to ambient ones. The products from such direct fuel synthesis include alkanes

alkenes

oxygenates and Syngas (CO + H2). The product distribution is similar to that from Fischer-Tropsch(F-T) synthesis but it does not follow the Flory-Schulz kinetics. The presence of zealots within discharge plasmas improves the selectivity of lighter hydrocarbons.