L. Feng
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Journal of Chemical Industry and Engineering
Abstract
The six methods for methyl formate synthesis such as direct esteration,methanol carbonylation, methanol dehydrogenation, formaldehyde dimerization, direct synthesis by synthetic gas, and hydrocondensation by methanol with CO 2 were introduced and reviewed respectively. Among them, the methods of direct esteration, methanol carbonylation and methanol dehydrogenation in gas phase have been industrialied, the others were being researched. The author thought that the method of methanol dehydrogenation in liquid phase had not only the same virtues as the traditional gas phase process but lower reaction temperature and energy consumption, higher conversion of methanol and yield. This process was the major direction of research in this field.