Polyethoxylation and polypropoxylation reactions: Kinetics, mass transfer and industrial reactor design

E. Santacesaria; R. Tesser; M. Di Serio

doi:10.1016/j.cjche.2018.02.020

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Polyethoxylation and polypropoxylation reactions: Kinetics, mass transfer and industrial reactor design

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- Polyethoxylation and polypropoxylation reactions: Kinetics, mass transfer and industrial reactor design
- Polyethoxylation and polypropoxylation reactions: Kinetics, mass transfer and industrial reactor design
- 中国化学工程学报（英文版） 2018年第6期页码：1235-1251
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  1. Eurochem Engineering srl., Via Codogno 5,- Milan,IT,Italy,20139
  2. 2 University of Naples "Federico Ⅱ", Department of Chemical Sciences, Via Cinthia,- Naples,IT,Italy,80126
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- DOI：10.1016/j.cjche.2018.02.020
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- 纸质出版：2018
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E. Santacesaria, R. Tesser, M. Di Serio. Polyethoxylation and polypropoxylation reactions: Kinetics, mass transfer and industrial reactor design[J]. 中国化学工程学报（英文版）, 2018,(6):1235-1251.

E. Santacesaria, R. Tesser, M. Di Serio. Polyethoxylation and polypropoxylation reactions: Kinetics, mass transfer and industrial reactor design[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2018, (6): 1235-1251.
E. Santacesaria, R. Tesser, M. Di Serio. Polyethoxylation and polypropoxylation reactions: Kinetics, mass transfer and industrial reactor design[J]. 中国化学工程学报（英文版）, 2018,(6):1235-1251. DOI： 10.1016/j.cjche.2018.02.020.

E. Santacesaria, R. Tesser, M. Di Serio. Polyethoxylation and polypropoxylation reactions: Kinetics, mass transfer and industrial reactor design[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2018, (6): 1235-1251. DOI： 10.1016/j.cjche.2018.02.020.

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Ethoxylation and propoxylation reactions are performed in the industry to produce mainly non-ionic surfactants and ethylene oxide (EO)-propylene oxide (PO) copolymers. Both the reactions occur in gas-liquid reactors by feeding gaseous EO

PO or both into the reactor containing a solution of an alkaline catalyst (KOH or NaOH). Non-ionic surfactants are produced by using liquid starters like fatty alcohols

fatty acids or alkyl-phenols

while when the scope is to prepare EO-PO copolymers the starter can be a mono-or multi-functional alcohol of low molecular weight. Both reactions are strongly exothermic

and EO and PO

in some conditions

can give place to runaway and also to explosive side reactions. Therefore

the choice of a suitable reactor is a key factor for operating in safe conditions. A correct reactor design requires:(i) the knowledge of the kinetic laws governing the rates of the occurring reactions; (ii) the role of mass and heat transfer in affecting the reaction rate; (iii) the solubility of EO and PO in the reacting mixture with the non-ideality of the reacting solutions considered; (iv) the density of the reacting mixture. All these aspects have been studied by our research group for different starters of industrial interest

and the data collected by using semibatch well stirred laboratory reactors have been employed for the simulation of industrial reactors

in particular Gas-Liquid Spray Tower Loop Reactors.

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