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A Study of the Sebatier-Methanation Reaction
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The kinetics of the Sabatier methanation reaction, the reduction of carbon dioxide with hydrogen to methane and water, was investigated for 58 percent nickel on kieselguhr catalyst and 20 percent ruthenium on alumina catalyst. Differential rate data from an experimental program were correlated with a power function rate equation both for forward and reverse reactions.
The kinetic parameters of activation energy, frequency rate constant and reaction order were determined for the rate equation. The values of these parameters were obtained from an Arrhenius plot of the experimental differential rate data.
Also the carbon monoxide side reaction effect was measured and included in the correlation of parameters. The reaction was found to fit the rate equation experimentally within the temperature range 421°K, where the reaction effectively begins, to 800°K where the reaction rate drops and departs from the rate equation form.
The paper discusses the experimental and analysis methods and describes how the reaction proceeds in a large reactor by use of the kinetic analyses results obtained in this study.
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Verostko, C. and Forsythe, R., "A Study of the Sebatier-Methanation Reaction," SAE Technical Paper 740933, 1974, https://doi.org/10.4271/740933.Also In
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