Absorption of isobutylene in aqueous ethanol and mixed alcohols: cation exchange resins as catalyst

✍ Scribed by S.S. Jayadeokar; M.M. Sharma

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 609 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(92)85097-u

✦ Synopsis

The kinetics of absorption of isobutylene in sub-azeotropic aqueous ethanol, to give ethyl-fert-butyl ether (ETBE) and tert-butanol (TBA), was investigated in a 0.075 m i.d. magnetically stirred autoclave in the temperature range of 303 to 333 K and a pressure of 0.345 MPa. The kinetics of absorption of isobutylene in mixed close boiling alcohols (ethanol + is@propanol; isopropanol + tert-butanol ) was also investigated in the temperature range of 303 to 343 K and a pressure of 0.345 MPa. It is possible to separate alcohols in view of large differences in rates of reaction.