AUTOCATALYTIC OXIDATION OF CYCLOHEXANE - MODELING REACTION-KINETICS

Liquid phase oxidation of hydrocrabons is a major source of organic chemicals. This paper concerns itself with the oxidation of cyclohexane. In this paper attention is given to the kinetics and to the interaction of kinetics and mass transfer, showing that in this autocatalytic system the dissolved oxygen level rises to saturation and falls as the rate of reaction increases. Initially zero order in oxygen, the reaction becomes first order at low oxygen levels.