Dehydration of butanol to butene over solid acid catalysts in high water envi…

Abstract. The effects were studied of high water concentrations on the kinetics of alcohol dehydration, as encountered in aqueous-phase processing of biomass-derived oxygenated hydrocarbons. These studies were carried out for dehydration of an aqueous solution of 10 wt% 2-butanol at 513 K, and at a total pressure of 52 bar to maintain the water in the liquid state. Under these high pressure…