Study on Application of Vinyl Methyl Ether in MTO Reaction

MTO is the core technology of the coal-to-olefins process. Vinyl methyl ether was added to the reaction feed to investigate the infulence of methoxy group concentration in MTO reaction. Several series of metal-modified ZSM-5 were synthesized to investigate the effect of metal element in the progress methoxy group involved. The reaction results indicated that both the addition of vinyl methyl ether and the metal modification on catalyst led to an increase in C2~C3 olefins yield. The highest C2~C3 olefins yield was obtained using methanol with 5wt% vinyl methyl ether as feed and ZSM-5 with 3wt% Ba modified as catalyst.