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TOPICS IN CATALYSIS
Volume 57, Issue 17-20, Pages 1425-1429Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s11244-014-0314-4
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Bio-ethanol; Bi-butanol; Heterogeneous catalyst; Reaction kinetics; Fixed bed
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Bio-ethanol is well known for its use as a gasoline additive. However, it can be blended in low portions to traditional gasoline although it has a corrosive nature. By taking advantage of modern continuous reactor technology and heterogeneous alumina catalysts, ethanol can be upgraded to 1-butanol in fixed beds. Butanol has more feasible properties as fuel component in comparison to ethanol. Mathematical modeling of reaction kinetics revealed a simple kinetic model could be used to describe the complex reaction process on a Cu/alumina catalyst. The reaction kinetics model is based on five parallel reactions in which ethanol reacts to 1-butanol, acetealdehyde, ethyl acetate, diethyl ether and diethoxyethane, respectively.
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