Example. Fitting kinetic parameters of a chemical reaction

Example. Fitting kinetic parameters of a chemical reaction 

Before proceeding, let us consider some simple examples of parameter estimation problems. We are studying the kinetics of the chemical reaction A + B C, which if assumed elementary, has the rate law 

Fitting the rate law to steady-state measurements of a CSTR 

For a CSTR, we measure k (T) by operating the reactor at steady state at constant volume V, constant volumetric flow rate v, constant inlet concentrations and measuring the 

In these equations, we have assumed that the reaction is elementary. To relax this assumption, we fit the data to the rate law rRi = A iCa Cb, inwhichcasethemodelparametervector is now 6 = [k Ub].  

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