Kinetics of mixed ethanol/n-butanol esterification of butyric acid with amberlyst 70 and p-toluene sulfonic acid

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1845-1853

  Santhanakrishnan, Arati ^a   Shannon, Abigail ^a   Peereboom, Lars ^a   Lira, Carl T ^a   Miller, Dennis J ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID ESTERIFICATION; AMBERLYST; BATCH REACTIONS; CATALYST LOADINGS; CATION EXCHANGE RESINS; CONCENTRATION RATIO; ESTERIFICATION KINETICS; IDEAL SOLUTIONS; KINETIC MODELS; KINETIC RATES; MIXED ALCOHOLS; N-BUTANOL; NON-IDEAL SOLUTION; OH GROUP; P-TOLUENE SULFONIC ACIDS; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; REACTIVE DISTILLATION PROCESS; SIMPLE ALCOHOLS; SOLUTION DENSITY;

ALCOHOLS; BUTYRIC ACID; CATALYSTS; ESTERIFICATION; ETHANOL; KINETICS; RATE CONSTANTS; TOLUENE;

ESTERS;

EID: 84873396201     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie302267s     Document Type: Article

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