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Optimal design of experiments for the identification of kinetic models of methanol oxidation over silver catalyst

Galvanin, F; Cao, E; Al-Rifai, N; Dua, V; Gavriilidis, A; (2015) Optimal design of experiments for the identification of kinetic models of methanol oxidation over silver catalyst. Chimica Oggi-Chemistry Today , 33 (3) pp. 51-56. Green open access

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Abstract

Partial oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde on silver catalyst represents an important industrial process due to the versatility of formaldehyde as an intermediate in chemical synthesis. The development of kinetic models is essential for a quantitative description of the changes in concentration of the chemical species involved in the process due to reaction as well as for process design and optimisation purposes. Microreactor platforms represent effective tools for the quick development of reliable kinetic models. However, the development and identification of kinetic models is strictly related to the execution of informative experiments, allowing either elucidation of the complex reaction pathways involved in the oxidation process or providing a precise estimation of the kinetic parameters for each candidate model. In this work a model-based design of experiments (MBDoE) procedure is proposed where experiments are optimally designed for both discriminating among competing models and for improving the estimation of kinetic parameters. The proposed methodology allows the most influential reaction pathways to be elucidated and provides a sequence of optimally informative experiments showing the key role of temperature in the kinetic model identification procedure.

Type: Article
Title: Optimal design of experiments for the identification of kinetic models of methanol oxidation over silver catalyst
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.teknoscienze.com/articles/chimica-oggi-...
Language: English
Additional information: with permission of the publisher.
Keywords: methanol oxidation, silver, microreaction technology, model-based design of experiments, model discrimination, kinetic modeling
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1469720
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