Kinetic study on the one-pot synthesis of dimethyl carbonate in supercritical CO2 conditions

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 7732-7739

  Cui, Hongyou ^a,b   Wang, Tao ^a   Wang, Fujun ^c   Gu, Chaoran ^c   Wang, Peilin ^c   Dai, Youyuan ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c SiNopec Shanghai Petrochemical   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; ETHYLENE; GLYCOLS; KINETIC THEORY; METHANOL; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

DIMETHYL CARBONATE (DMC); ETHYLENE EPOXIDE (EO); REACTION RATES;

CARBONATES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DIMETHYL CARBONATE; DIMETHYL SULFATE; ETHYLENE GLYCOL; ETHYLENE OXIDE; METHANOL; POTASSIUM CARBONATE; POTASSIUM IODIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

KINETICS;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; PRESSURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSESTERIFICATION;

EID: 9244223599     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049715r     Document Type: Article

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