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Introduction

Growing worldwide consumption of energy during the last decades is an outcome of growing world’s population and also the strong dependence of human’s lifestyle to energy carriers. As an example, 20% of global energy consumption belongs to the transportation section. Although fossil hydrocarbon-based energy carriers opened new vistas within the procedures of energy production, decreasing sources of natural gas and crude oil is making the governments and industries explore alternatives and even invent novel methods for manufacturing fuels. In addition to the depletion of fossil hydrocarbon sources, increasing emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), as well as NO x and SO x , is a real challenge of consuming fossil fuels. Global warming, change in climate patterns, and defects in biodiversity are the potential drawbacks of such emissions [1,2,3,4,5,6]. Besides, necessities of primary separation of impurities such as nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, mercaptans, and...

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