Abstract:
Under the atmospheric pressure, the vapour phase catalytic carbonylation of methyl alcohol has been studied, of which the metallic nickel embedded in the substrate of activated carbon is used as a catalyst with a small amount of methyl iodide as a promoter.In order to get additional imforation for this reaction, the changes of performance caused by the presence of small amount of ther elements have also been observed analogically.When the reaction conditions are appropriate, over 65% yield of acetic acid and 70% yield of carbonylated products can be obtained, in addition, some amount of methane, dimethyl ether and CO_2 also liberated with the main products. The experimental result shows that such type of Ni/activated carbon catalyst would be one of the future candidates of non-Rh catalyst for the practical use in the carbonylation of methyl alcohol.