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ACS CATALYSIS
Volume 5, Issue 12, Pages 7186-7193Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5b01911
Keywords
methanol; dehydration; dimethyl ether; acid catalysis; heteropoly acid; HZSM-5
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Dehydration of methanol to dimethyl ether (DME) was studied at a gas/solid interface over a wide range of bulk and supported Bronsted acid catalysts based on tungsten Keggin heteropoly acids (HPA) and compared with the reaction over HZSM-5 zeolites (Si/Al = 10-120). Turnover rates for these catalysts were measured under zero-order reaction conditions. The HPA catalysts were demonstrated to have much higher catalytic activities than the HZSM-S zeolites. A good correlation between the turnover rates and catalyst acid strengths, represented by the initial enthalpies of ammonia adsorption, was established. This correlation holds for the HPA and HZSM-S catalysts studied, which indicates that the methanol-to-DME dehydration with both HPA and HZSM-5 catalysts occurs via the same (or similar) mechanism and the turnover rate of methanol dehydration for both catalysts is primarily determined by the strength of catalyst acid sites, regardless of the catalyst pore geometry.
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