Deriving Parameters for an Empirical Rate Equation of Phosgene Synthesis

1 Deriving Parameters for an Empirical Rate Equation of Phosgene Synthesis 

Phosgene synthesis occurs according to the overall reaction  

An empirical equation was proposed to describe the process in terms of the product formation rate, v  

The equation contains current concentrations of the reactants, [CO],[Cl2], and[COC/2], as well as the effective rate constants for the direct and inverse reactions, k and 2- The parameters a, b, c, and d can be considered as the formal reaction orders on each reactant. An experiment gave the values of the reaction rates depending on the ratios of component concentration (Table 4.6). It is necessary to derive the unknown parameters of the empirical equation as well as the pre-exponential terms and activation energies of the direct and reverse reactions. 

The problem is solved in several steps (Fig. 4.10). First, we will define the reaction orders and rate constants by minimization of the target function of six 

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