STUDY OF KINETICS OF LIQUID PHASE DIMETHYL ETHER SYNTHESIS FROM SYNTHESIS GAS

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Abstract
The kinetics of liquid phase dimethyl ether synthesis from synthesis gas had been studied when catalyst concentration varied in the range from 10 to 30 grams of dual catalyst in 300 mL of liquid paraffin. DHE productivity and methanol equivalent productivity decreased with increasing catalyst concentration, and as reaction temperature was increased, the two productivities reached their peaks at 280 °C. Unlike above productivities, methanol productivity decreased with both catalyst concentration and reaction temperature. A lump reaction rate expression was developed for the methanol equivalent productivity in terms of CO partial pressure. Both the prequency factors and activation energies are functions of catalyst concentration, increasing with catalyst concentration increasing.