Mechanism and Temperature-Dependent Kinetics of the Dehydration of tert-Butyl Alcohol in Hot Compressed Liquid Water

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-41

  Xu, Xiaodong ^a   Antal Jr , Michael Jerry ^a   Anderson, Donald G M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; BUTENES; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REACTION KINETICS; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

BRONSTED ACID; CATALYTIC AGENTS; HETEROLYTIC REACTION; HOT COMPRESSED LIQUID WATER; KINETIC MODEL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT KINETICS; TERT BUTYL ALCOHOL;

DEHYDRATION;

ALCOHOLS; REACTIONS; WATER;

EID: 0030909383     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie960349o     Document Type: Article

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