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As a kind of excellent diesel-blending component, polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (PODEn) have received widespread attention. Herein, Al-SBA-15 molecular sieves with different Si/Al ratios and pore sizes were synthesized and used to investigate the catalytic performance for the synthesis of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers from methylal and trioxane. X-ray diffraction, N2adsorption–desorption, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray fluorescence, and 27Al NMR were used to characterize the structures of obtained catalysts. Ammonia temperature-programmed desorption and pyridine adsorption were carried out to investigate the acid properties of the catalysts. Through comparison of the catalysts with different Al contents, it was found that the relatively weak acid was more suitable for the synthesis of PODEn than the relatively strong acid in the catalytic system of Al-SBA-15. On the Al-SBA-15(2)-150 catalyst, which has only a weak acid of 0.163 mmol/g, the highest TOX conversion rate and highest PODEn yield and selectivity were achieved, showing the best catalytic performance. It appears that the PODEn synthesis can be catalyzed by not only a Brönsted acid but also a Lewis acid. The catalysts with strong acid and/or with a large number of acids will cause the generation of significant amount of methyl formate byproduct. Through comparison of the catalysts with different pore sizes, it was found that a relative larger pore size of the catalyst was beneficial for the PODEn synthesis to a certain extent under the catalysts with strong acid and/or large acid amount, but on the catalyst that had only weak acid and a relatively lesser amount, the change of pore size had almost no effect on the yield and selectivity of PODEn products.