Methyl Acetate Synthesis Using a Reactive Distillation Unit

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Methyl acetate can be obtained by reactive distillation. The reaction involved is an esterification reaction between methanol and acetic acid to produce methyl acetate and water: .
Contributed by: Housam Binous, Manel Selmi, Ines Wada, Selima Allouche, and Ahmed Bellagi (April 2010)
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R. S. Huss, F. Chen, M. F. Malone, and M. F. Doherty, "Reactive Distillation for Methyl Acetate Production," Computers and Chemical Engineering, 27(12), 2003 pp. 1855–1866.
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Published: April 27 2010