Transesterification
of Methyl Acetate with <i>n</i>‑Propanol: Reaction Kinetics and Simulation in Reactive Distillation Process
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Abstract
The
reaction kinetics of the transesterification of methyl acetate
with <i>n</i>-propanol is described by pseudohomogeneous
(PH) kinetic model, which can successfully correlate with the experimental
data. The influence of temperature as well as catalyst loading and
initial molar ratio of n-propanol to methyl acetate on this reaction
is studied under the condition of eliminating both internal and external
mass transfer resistances. On the basis of the PH kinetic model, the
influences of design parameters are studied, such as recycle flow
rate, the number of stages of the reactive distillation column (RD),
and theoretical stages of the conventional distillation column. These
parameters are further optimized to minimize total annual cost in
the RD process