Vapor-Phase Dehydrogenation of Methanol to Methyl Formate in Catalytic Membrane Reactor with Pd/SiO2/Ceramic Composite Membrane

Vapor-phase dehydrogenation of methanol to methyl formate was investigated in the catalytic membrane reactor (CMR) with the Pd/SiO2/ceramic composite membrane prepared by an impregnation method. The studies show that the CMR has much better performance than the fixed-bed reactor, in which no methyl formate is detected under the similar reaction conditions.