Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 1997, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (8): 1364.

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Studies on A New Catalytic System for Heterogeneous Carbonylation of Methanol to Methyl Formate

LI Hai-Yan, ZHOU Jin-Mei, LIN Guo-Dong, ZHANG Hong-Bin   

  1. Department of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of the Solid Surface, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005
  • Received:1997-04-07 Online:1997-08-24 Published:1997-08-24

Abstract: By using zeolite-supported alkali methoxide liquid-film catalysts, such as KOCH3-PEG/NaZSM-5(or NaY), the heterogeneous catalytic carbonylation of methanol to methyl formate was realized in a fixed-bed continuous flow reactor. Under the reaction conditions of 353 K,1.0 MPa, feedgas composition of CO/CH3OH=6.48(molar ratio) and GHSV=11160h-1, the STYof MFreached up to 1900mg/(h·gcat.), with selectivity to MFat 100%.The experimental results indicated that methoxide anion CH3O- was crucial catalyti-cally active species. The role of the additive polyethylene glycol(PEG) in generating a liquid-film environment, in which the carbonylation reaction would take place, is important,espe-cially in the case of supports with large pore-diameter as SiO2. However, in the case of some support materials with abundant micropore structure such as ZSM-5 or Y-type zeolite, it is probable to design and select appropriate reaction conditions(mainly, temperature and partial pressure of methanol in feedstream) to generate directly liquid-film of methanol by means of the "capillary condensation effect", as a consequence, addition of PEGmay be cut down, or even, avoided.

Key words: Methanol, Methyl formate, Heterogeneous carbonylation, Supported liquid-film catalyst

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