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A kinetic model for the synthesis of ethanol from syngas and methanol over an alkali-Co doped molybdenum sulfide catalyst: Model building and validation at bench scale

A set of experiments was run in laboratory and bench scale reactors over an alkali-Co doped molybdenum sulfide catalyst in order to develop and validate the kinetics of higher alcohol synthesis from syngas/methanol mixtures, The purpose is to generate a kinetic model useful to design a mixed alcohol process where methanol is recycled to the reactor to increase ethanol production. Experimental data from the laboratory scale reactor were fitted using a power-law model, considering a CO insertion reaction scheme. The model was validated with a group of experiments carried out at the bench scale reactor, consisting of experiments with methanol co-feeding and gas recycle. Finally, we also studied whether a model would be able to predict the effect of methanol co-feeding if its parameters were determined by fitting only the experiments where methanol co-feeding was not performed.

» Author: M.A. Portillo, A.L. Villanueva Perales, F. Vidal-Barrero, M. Campoy

» Reference: Fuel Processing Technology, Volume 151

» Publication Date: 01/10/2016

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