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[Johny C]

Hello brothers,
I am working on a project of manufacturing of IPA (isopropyl alcohol) by direct hydration
The reaction is :
propylene + water <----> isopropyl alcohol
C3H6 + H2O <----> C3H8O

The equilibrium can be controlled to favor product alcohol if high pressures and low temperatures are applied.
The reaction carries out at high pressure 200 atm. in presence of catalyst tungsten oxide at 270 C.

Can you tell me the procedure of finding out the rate of the reaction? Though it may look very fundamental question would you guys help me here? Can we find it out without having information of live data or unsteady experimental data? Are there resources available to find out the required rate of reaction?

[Andrea10]

Hi Johny!
If you want to deal with the kinetic of the reaction, you must get some experimental data about that reaction...otherwise, even if you can postulate a kinetic model a priori, you will not be able neither to estimate reaction kinetic parameters nor to check kinetic model validity!
Try first with some literature research about that reaction!

[Padmakar Katre]

Dear,
I found the link but this for the kinetics of the dehydration IPA to Propylene which is below, this reaction also uses the titanium oxide catalyst.
http://www.springerl...7517r10131x215/
Some mor links I found which I hope will be useful,
http://www.amberlyst..._references.htm
http://www.nacatsoc......ver Oxide.pdf
And here is the link for what you want.......
http://www.sciencedi...e67aa2bc012a552