Abstract
The adsorption as well as the rate during the course of the methanol decomposition on a methanol synthesis catalyst with three components have been investigated. The amounts of adsorption of both hydrogen and carbon monoxide or any complex formed from them during the decomposition were greater than those from the mixture of 2H 2:1CO. No decrease in the ambient pressure of hydrogen was observed at the sudden removal of methanol from the gas phase during the course of the decomposition reaction by means of a dry ice trap. The rate-determining step of the decomposition of methanol is suggested to be the process of dissociation of the adsorbed methanol into the adsorbed intermediate and hydrogen. The initial amount of adsorption of methanol during the reaction was the saturation value expected from v m in the BET equation. The empirical zero order kinetics is explained on the basis of the saturated adsorption of methanol on the catalyst surface.
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