(reported by fan xin) days ago, the “development and application of dimethyl ether catalyst made from methanol”, a major r&d project completed by the southwest research & design institute of chemical industry, passed technology achievement evaluation organized by sichuan zhixinjiuding science and technology evaluation co., ltd., and was registered by the science & technology department of sichuan province.
through years of painstaking research and by adopting innovative catalyst formula design, tablet forming, stepwise heating and calcination, and other catalyst preparation technologies, the r&d team has significantly improved the strength, specific surface area, activity, selectivity and service life of the catalyst, and realized super large-scale production of dimethyl ether catalyst from methanol in a low-consumption, no-pollution and low-cost manner. the catalyst product has been satisfactorily used by shenhua ningxia coal industry group in its megaton-level mtp units, showing a better performance than imported catalysts.
according to the evaluation report, the successful project has made possible large-scale production of a new-generation dimethyl ether catalyst and the project achievement has been applied in megaton-level super-large units for producing dimethyl ether from methanol. capable of replacing imported catalysts, the product has reached internationally advanced technical level on the whole, the report says.
