S. Lux, T. Winkler, Georg Berger
Jan 3, 2016
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Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly
Abstract
The bulk chemicals esters contribute to commodity chemicals in nearly unlimited variety. Common fields of application include their use as solvents, plasticizers, surfactants, flavours, inter mediates in preparative organic chemistry, and many more.1 Though well investigated, the technology of ester production offers some challenging characteristics regarding catalysis, operation conditions and downstream processing. The synthesis of methyl acetate (MeOAc) via liquid-phase esterification of acetic acid (HOAc) and methanol (MeOH) is a prominent example thereof. The reaction proceeds via the following reaction equation: