Kinetics of primary reactions of vapor-phase methanol carbonylation on Sn-Ni/C catalyst

Journal Article · Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994 · Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/ie00031a006· OSTI ID:6954841

Liu, T C; Chiu, S J ^[1]

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1. National Taiwan Inst. of Technology, Taipei (Taiwan, Province of China). Dept. of Chemical Engineering

Vapor-phase carbonylation of methanol (MeOH) was investigated under atmospheric pressure. A novel heterogeneous Sn-Ni/C catalyst was utilized for the reaction. Experiments were designed with the elimination of mass-transfer resistances to extract reaction data. The data of primary reactions in the carbonylation were collected via a differential tubular reactor. Feed composition to the reactor was varied to examine the effect of partial pressures of reactants on the reaction rate. The carbonylation was conducted at several temperatures for the determination of activation energies. Power law rate models were employed to express the conversion of methanol and the yields of methyl acetate and dimethyl ether. Adequate results were obtained with the models to represent the experimental data.

• OSTI ID: 6954841
• Journal Information: Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research; (United States), Vol. 33:7; ISSN 0888-5885
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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