“…The rates of MMA reforming were determined to be proportional to the partial pressure of MMA while DMA reforming is controlled by a surface reaction so that the rate is proportional to the square root of the DMA partial pressure. Weigert (1981Weigert ( , 1987 obtained relative rates of the reforming reactions over sodium mordenite, Davison D-970 silica-alumina, and Harshaw AL-0104 alumina through his analysis of the kinetics of the methanol amination reaction. His results, displayed in Table 1, show that the nature of the catalyst has a significant effect on the relative rates of the reforming reactions.…”