Catalytic dehydration of methanol to dimethyl ether (DME) over Pd/Cab-O-Sil catalysts

Applied Catalysis A: General

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 303-309

  Xu, Mingting ^a   Goodman, D Wayne ^a   Bhattacharyya, Alak ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Dimethyl ether; Methanol; Palladium

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005191981     PISSN: 0926860X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0926-860X(96)00276-1     Document Type: Article

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