Kinetic study of transesterification of methyl acetate with n-butanol catalyzed by NKC-9

✍ Scribed by Baoyun Xu; Weijiang Zhang; Xuemei Zhang; Cuifang Zhou

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 222 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0538-8066
• DOI: 10.1002/kin.20378

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The transesterification of methyl acetate and n‐butanol catalyzed by cation‐exchange resin, NKC‐9, was studied in this work to obtain the reaction kinetics. The experiments were carried out in a stirred batch reactor at different temperatures (328.15, 333.15, 338.15, 343.15, 345.15 K) under atmospheric pressure. The effects of temperature, molar ratio of reactants, and catalyst loading on the reaction rate were researched under the condition of eliminating the effect of diffusion. The experimental data were correlated with a kinetic model based on the pseudo‐homogeneous catalysis. The kinetic equation describing the reaction catalyzed by NKC‐9 was developed. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Chem Kinet 41: 101–106, 2009