Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters, Vol.69, No.2, 239-246, 2000
Gas-phase synthesis of ethyl tert-butyl ether (ETBE) on H-ZSM-5 catalyst in continuous fixed-bed and fluidized-bed reactors
The gas-phase synthesis of ETBE from ethanol and isobutene has been carried out over a H-ZSM-5 catalyst in two types of continuous-flow catalytic reactors, fixed-bed and fluidized-bed. We have studied the influence of temperature, molar ratio ethanol/isobutene and weight hourly space velocity on the yield of ETBE.