Kinetics of the hydrogenation of rapeseed oil: II. Rate equations of chemical reactions

Abstract

Abstract The kinetics of rapeseed oil hydrogenation was studied at 140–220 C and at 0.3–10 atm hydrogen pressure in a laboratory reactor in the presence of 0.05% nickel catalyst. A mathematical model was fitted to the experimental data, and temperature and pressure dependence of the different reaction steps was discussed on the basis of the model. The adequacy of the model was tested by means of a residual analysis.