Omid Rahmanpour - 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
Mohammad Reza Khosravi nikoo - Petroleum University of Technology, Ahwaz Faculty of Petroleum Engineering, Gas Engineering Department

The conversion of methanol to dimethyl ether was carried out over the commercial Engelhard γ-Al2O3 catalyst and synthesized γ-Al2O3 nano catalysts to evaluate their catalytic performances. The activity of each catalyst was examined in the dehydration of methanol to DME using a fixed-bed microreactor at a reaction pressure of 1 barg and WHSV of 15 h-1.The catalysts characterized by XRD technique. The results showed that maximum conversion of reaction was observed at temperature range of 310 to 350 ⁰C and WHSV of 15 hr-1 with methanol conversion of 84% for commercial catalyst and 85% for synthesized catalyst. The commercial catalyst exhibited better stability at the temperature range of 300 to 380 ºC in dehydration of methanol

Methanol, Dimethylether, Dehydration, Commercial Catalyst, Synthesized nano γ-Al2O3