Does Direct Dimethyl Ether Synthesis from Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Yield More Valuable Products than the Equivalent Methanol Production? A Review on Recent Work
Felix Hilfinger, Dustin Kubas, Prof. Dr. Ingo Krossing
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Abstract
Dimethyl ether (DME) has promising properties as e-fuel and platform chemical. Its direct synthesis from CO2 and hydrogen, which is thermodynamically more favorable than the indirect route over methanol, is reviewed. Systematic thermodynamic equilibrium calculations are evaluated and compared to bifunctional catalysis experiments performed with Cu/ZnO/ZrO2 methanol catalyst and ferrierite or heteropolyacid-coated dehydration catalysts under thermodynamic and kinetic conditions. In the thermodynamic region, the methyl yield of direct DME synthesis is superior over sole methanol synthesis. Significant differences among the solid acids used are absent. However, under kinetic conditions, the heteropolyacid-coated catalysts show superior performance for dehydration over zeolites.
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