Dehydration of methanol to dimethyl ether by catalytic distillation

Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 948-955

  An, Weizhu ^a   Chuang, Karl T ^a   Sanger, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Catalytic distillation; Dimethyl ether; Eley Rideal kinetics; Ion exchange resin catalyst; Methanol dehydration to DME

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTORS; DATA REDUCTION; DEHYDRATION; DISTILLATION; ETHERS; REACTION KINETICS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

CATALYTIC DISTILLATION; ELEY-RIDEAL TYPE KINETIC EXPRESSION; LIQUID CATALYTIC DEHYDRATION; RATE-DETERMINING STEP;

METHANOL;

DISTILLATION;

EID: 13844296405     PISSN: 00084034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450820510     Document Type: Article

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