What is a laboratory set-up for the synthesis of ethanol from ethene? I am doing a chemistry investigation and one component of that requires me to synthesize ethanol from ethene. Ethene itself is gaseous at room temperature and pressure so I was wondering if someone could suggest how I can carry out this synthesis with the use of acids to obtain ethanol.

To give you an idea of what I am actually doing for this investigation, I am trying to find the yield of ethanol when ethene is hydrated using different acid catalysts. However, because ethene is gaseous, I don't know how I am going to actually do this experiment.

To further clarify, I know what reagents I need to use and I know the mechanism of the reaction, I just don't know how to do it practically within a laboratory setting.
You should try bubbling the ethene gas through dilute sulfuric acid. It should form ethyl sulfate and get hydrated with water forming ethanol. As the gas will bubble through the solution, you should have an ample amount of liquid so that most of the gas can maximally react with the sulfuric acid before bubbling out as gas. You should do the reaction in a fume, hood too. Then I think that you could separate the ethanol from the water by distillation of the ethanol from the mixture, or you could separate it by exploiting the great difference in the freezing points of ethanol and water.

If you could connect tubes in such a way with special chemistry glassware, then maybe you could make some kind of reflux apparatus like an acid reflux apparatus where the gas funnels back into the bottom of the liquid and cycles through several times then you could increase your yield. Just if you use some cyclic mechanism, don't release the gas too quickly or you could break your apparatus. 

I'm not exactly sure what the experimental design is. But due to the concentration of gas in the reaction chamber, it's important to have an escape valve for the gas for safety purposes of equalizing pressure. If you know what you want, an experienced glass-blower can make your apparatus.