Oxidation of Aldehydes to Carboxylic Acids Investigated in Micro Reactors

3 Oxidation of Aldehydes to Carboxylic Acids Investigated in Micro Reactors Cas/liquid reaction 26 [CL 26) Homc eneously catalyzed oxidation of butyraldehyde to butyric acid 

Butyraldehyde is oxidized to butyric acid in the presence of air using manganese acetate as catalyst [9, 10], 

5 Typical Results Conversion/selectivity/yield - benchmarking 

Reactor model of micro bubble column performance 

Using this reactor model, conversions as a fimction o residence time were modeled and compared with experimental data [10]. The model describes qualitatively the behavior of the experiment, showing at first near-constant behavior and then a more notable decrease in conversion with increasing residence time (due to decreasing specific interface). 

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