A reactive distillation tower equipped with 10 catalyst-packed plates (9.8 cm3 of solid acidic catalyst packed on each plate), five equivalent separation trays above the catalyst packed plates, and three equivalent separation trays below the catalyst packed plates was used for reactive distillation experiments. The feed rates of acetic acid and ethanol were 2.65 and 3.71 mole/hr, respectively. When the reflux ratio was 3.0, the concentration of ethyl acetate at the top of the reactive distillation tower was 70 mole%. A final ethyl acetate product (over 98 wt%) was obtained through a further distillation. Modeling of the reactive distillation process was undertaken and a computer program was coded. Process simulations were conducted using the program; these simulation results explained the experimental measurements within 5 % error.