EFFECT OF WATER ON THE CATALYTIC ALKYLATION OF TOLUENE BY ETHANOL ON PENTASILS

Authors
SYAOYUI V SINITSYNA OA ROMANOVSKII BV
Citation
V. Syaoyui et al., EFFECT OF WATER ON THE CATALYTIC ALKYLATION OF TOLUENE BY ETHANOL ON PENTASILS, Petroleum chemistry, 35(2), 1995, pp. 116-120
Citations number
11
Categorie Soggetti
Energy & Fuels","Engineering, Chemical","Engineering, Petroleum
Journal title
Petroleum chemistry → ACNP
ISSN journal
09655441
Volume
35
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
116 - 120
Database
ISI
SICI code
0965-5441(1995)35:2<116:EOWOTC>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
The alkylation of toluene by ethanol has been investigated. Low-concen tration aqueous solutions of ethanol were used, modelling the product of fermentation processing of renewable feedstock, and the catalyst wa s a high-silica zeolite of the pentasil type. It has been shown that e xcess water in the reaction mixture has a very favourable effect on pr ocess selectivity with respect to ethyltoluenes, which reaches 99-100% with the complete absence of the ortho-isomer and a para-isomer conte nt of up to 92%.