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Kinetics studies of ketazine formation: Effect of temperature and catalyst concentration
Author(s) -
Kaur Raminder,
Machiraju Ramakrishna,
Nigam K. D. P.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the canadian journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1939-019X
pISSN - 0008-4034
DOI - 10.1002/cjce.20013
Subject(s) - catalysis , yield (engineering) , chemistry , activation energy , kinetics , peroxide , limiting , chemical kinetics , homogeneous , batch reactor , reaction rate , inorganic chemistry , chemical engineering , organic chemistry , materials science , thermodynamics , metallurgy , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering
Formation of methyl ethyl ketazine is a distinct case of homogeneous catalyzed gas–liquid–liquid reactions. Kinetics studies of methyl ethyl ketazine formation has been carried out in a semi‐batch reactor. The effects of temperature and catalyst concentration on the percentage yield of ketazine have been studied extensively. The yield of ketazine is found to increase with increase in temperature and then levels off. Increase in catalyst concentration favours the formation of ketazine. The conversion of peroxide is found to increase with increase in temperature thus indicating that chemical reaction is rate‐limiting step in the system. The desired temperature for carrying out the reaction is found to be 60°C and the required catalyst to peroxide ratio is 2.5. The activation energy for the reaction is 24.5 kJ/mol.