Abstract
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.
| Original language | Undefined/Unknown |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1425–1429 |
| Journal | Topics in Catalysis |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue number | 17-20 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |