(8d) Proposed Method to Correlate Reaction Yield On Suspended Catalysts with Reactor Conditions

The yield of a complex chemical reaction (two or more reactions in parallel or series)occurring on a suspended catalyst in stirred liquid phase depends on the relative rates of the chemical reactions and the mass transfer rates of the reactants to the catalyst and of the products away from the catalyst. If the mixing rate of a fed reactant into a pre-existing mixture of a resident reactant and the suspended catalyst is much faster than interphase mass transfer onto the catalyst and the chemical reactions in the liquid phase are very slow relative to those on the catalyst, then a ratio of reaction rate on the catalyst to the mass transfer rate (a catalyst Damkoehler number) should serve to correlate yield of the primary reaction with that ratio. Example systems will be demonstrated in this paper.