Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Vol.43, No.4, 924-927, 2004
Gas/liquid mass transfer in small laboratory batch reactors: Comparison of methods
The interest and accuracy of using the physical absorption of hydrogen to determine k(L)a in small batch reactors (25-300 cm(3)) are revisited. The results are compared with those obtained by carrying out the hydrogenation of alpha-methylstyrene, a fast chemical reaction with known intrinsic kinetics.