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The experimental testing of a novel pseudoadiabatic reactor for the conversion of methanol to gasoline is described. This reactor concept provides an always increasing temperature profile along the longitudinal axis in a cocurrently cooled packed-bed catalytic heat exchanger/reactor. A mini pilot-plant-scale unit reactor, 2 m long and 2 cm in diameter, was built according to this concept and successfully tested. It was shown that the pseudoadiabatic operation is feasible and compatible with very high methanol conversion. The quality of the hydrocarbon products obtained was satisfactory, the liquid fraction having a research method octane number of 95-97.