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Part II: Reaction rate studies and the analysis of batch esterification in two phase systems
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
aiche journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 167
eISSN - 1547-5905
pISSN - 0001-1541
DOI - 10.1002/aic.690270509
Subject(s) - heptane , chemistry , catalysis , alcohol , reaction rate , batch reactor , acetic acid , reaction rate constant , solvent , mass transfer , kinetics , phase (matter) , homogeneous , thermodynamics , organic chemistry , chromatography , physics , quantum mechanics
The kinetics of the esterification of n‐butyl alcohol with acetic acid has been studied experimentally in concentrated solutions at near ambient temperature in the presence of a sulphuric acid catalyst and the rate constants for the forward and reverse reaction determined. The rate data obtained from the homogeneous system has been applied to analyse the performance of a batch‐extractive reactor using n‐heptane as solvent. The rate of mass transfer of the ester was found to be significant and when introduced in a model of the reaction process gave good agreement with the experimental results.