By using a surface-modified carbon-rod loaded with platinum as the pyrogen of a thermal diffusion column reactor, the dehydrogenative methane homologation was investigated. The supplied energy using platinum-loaded pyrogen has dropped in value by 50% (150 K depression expressed in reaction temperature) compared with the use of a platinum-unloaded one. Furthermore, both higher fractions of aliphatic oil (63.5% at 1173 K) and a very high selectivity of ethane (almost 100% from 1073-1173 K) were obtained.