Kinetic study of TBP synthesis processes

A programmed method was developed in order to obtain the kinetical specifications of any reaction which occurs in a batch reactor in the case of a maximal selectivity. This method consists in complete algorithm which permits to calculate quickly the reaction order, the kinetical constants and the activation energy. Unless one previously knows the reaction order, the first step consists in iterative calculations based on OTSWALD Kinetical Method. The different order values are tested around the suspected value until the kinetical constant reaches an effective constant value. The second step deals with the kinetical constants determination and is based on ARRHENIUS Model. The general relationship used in this work can be applied to any single reaction process. In a third step, the dependence between the kinetical constants and temperature could be used to approximate the activation energy on the basis of the least squares method. The method was previously applied in modelling the kinetics of tributylphosphate (TBP) synthesis processes and gave satisfactory results. More-over, the algorithm is easy and could be written in any programming language