Product distributions in ethyl tert-butyl ether synthesis over different solid acid catalysts

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2566-2576

  Degirmenci, Levent ^a   Oktar, Nuray ^a   Dogu, Gulsen ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBERLYST; AMBERLYST-15; AMBERLYST-35; DIETHYL ETHERS; ETBE SYNTHESIS; ETHYL TERT-BUTYL ETHERS; FIXED-BED FLOW REACTORS; HETEROPOLYACID CATALYSTS; HETEROPOLYACIDS; INHIBITING EFFECTS; INTERPRETATION OF EXPERIMENTS; PETROCHEMICAL FEEDSTOCKS; PRODUCT DISTRIBUTIONS; SILICOTUNGSTIC ACIDS; SOLID ACID CATALYSTS; TUNGSTOPHOSPHORIC ACIDS; VAPOR-PHASE;

ACIDS; ADSORPTION; CATALYSIS; ETHANOL; ETHERS; ETHYLENE; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ION EXCHANGE; ION EXCHANGE RESINS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CATALYST ACTIVITY;

EID: 64749091721     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie801508r     Document Type: Article

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