Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol.48, No.2, 647-653, 2009
Kinetic Modeling of Limonene Epoxidation over PW-Amberlite
The kinetics of limonene epoxidation catalyzed by PW-Amberlite under triphasic conditions is described. A mechanistic pathway was postulated, and a heterogeneous kinetic model was derived following pseudo-stationary-state theory. Using adsorption parameters that were estimated from independent binary adsorption experiments, the resulting kinetic model fitted the experimental data quite well.