What impact does an excessive level of free acid in the methanol feedstock used in MTBE plants have on the catalysts used in MTBE production as well as on the MTBE product itself?
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Dear experts, I would like to ask: What impact does an excessive level of free acids in the methanol, which is the raw material for MTBE production, have on the catalysts used in MTBE production as well as on the MTBE product itself?
It doesn’t have much of an impact; the catalyst is also acidic
Corrosion: To control the pH of the extraction water, we added an acid scavenger