Hadi Ajami - Petroleum University of Technology, Ahwaz Faculty of Petroleum Engineering, Gas Engineering Department
Ahmad Shariati - Petroleum University of Technology, Ahwaz Faculty of Petroleum Engineering, Gas Engineering Department, Ahwaz, Iran

The conversion of methanol to dimethyl ether was carried out over commercial H-ZSM-5 and γ-Al2O3 catalysts to evaluate their catalytic performances. The activity of each catalyst was examined in the dehydration of crude methanol to DME using a fixed-bed microreactor at a reaction pressure of 2barg and LHSV of 15 h_1. The catalysts characterized by XRD technique. The results showed that the H-ZSM-5 exhibited better activity in dehydration of methanol

methanol, dimethylether, H-ZSM-5, γ-Al2O3 microreactor, dehydration