Total Pressure Method of Reaction-Rate Data Analysis

TOTAL PRESSURE METHOD OF REACTION-RATE DATA ANALYSIS... 

The approach to be followed in the determination of rates or detailed kinetics of the reaction in a liquid phase between a component of a gas and a component of the liquid is, in principle, the same as that outlined in Chapter 2 for gas-phase reactions on a solid catalyst. In general the experiments are carried out in flow reactors of the integral type. The data may be analyzed by the integral or the differential method of kinetic analysis. The continuity equations for the components, which contain the rate equations, of course depend on the type of reactor used in the experimental study. These continuity equations will be discussed in detail in the appropriate chapters, in particular Chapter 14 on multiphase flow reactors. Consider for the time being, by way of example, a tubular type of reactor with the gas and liquid in a perfectly ordered flow, called plug flow. The steady-state continuity equation for the component A of the gas, written in terms of partial pressure over a volume element dV and neglecting any variation in the total molar flow rate of the gas is as follows ... 

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