Silver-Modified η-Al2O3 Catalyst for DME Production

Ahmed Ibrahim Osman Ahmed; Jehad Abu-Dahrieh; Adel Abdelkader; Nourhan Hassan; Fathima Laffir; Mathew McLaren; David Rooney

doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b04697

Silver-Modified η-Al2O3 Catalyst for DME Production

Ahmed Ibrahim Osman Ahmed^*, Jehad Abu-Dahrieh, Adel Abdelkader, Nourhan Hassan, Fathima Laffir, Mathew McLaren, David Rooney

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Herein, an in situ DRIFT technique was used to study the reaction mechanism of methanol dehydration to dimethyl ether (DME). Moreover, the effect of silver loading on the catalytic performance of η-Al2O3 was examined in a fixed bed reactor under the reaction conditions where the temperature ranged from 180 to 300 °C with a WHSV = 48.4 h–1. It was observed that the optimum Ag loading was found to be 10% Ag/η-Al2O3 with this novel catalyst also showing a high degree of stability under steady-state conditions, and this is attributed to the enhancement in both the surface Lewis acidity and the hydrophobicity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	25018–25032
Journal	Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Volume	121
Issue number	45
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b04697
Publication status	Published - 20 Oct 2017

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