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Abstract
Selective hydrogenation is the habitual industrial process to eliminate the most unsaturated hydrocarbons, which are harmful for later applications. In this paper, the kinetics of the selective hydrogenation of a C2 mixture over two palladium/alumina catalysts with both front end and tail end variants, have been studied. Experiments have been carried out to analyse the influence of temperature, hydrogen/acetylene molar ratio, carbon monoxide content in the feed and hydrocarbon volumetric flow rate on the corresponding conversion and selectivity.
The experiments were performed in an integral plug flow reactor and the integral method was used for the kinetic analysis. The minimization of the objective function was made by the Marquardt algorithm for multiple response and the continuity equation set integrated by fourth order Runge-Kutta technique.
The most adequate models were the power law type for the experimental range. The comparison between experimental and observed values of the acetylene and ethane molar fraction in the hydrocarbon mixture, which are used for minimization, confirm the suitability of the fit.
