Incremental Identification of a Full Model of a Twophase Friedelcrafts Acylation Reaction

Due to the efficient product separation and catalyst immobilization, multi-phase catalytic systems are attractive for industrial applications. Nevertheless, it is usually difficult to decouple reaction and mass transfer kinetics such that the experimental determination of reaction kinetics is masked by mass transfer effects. A novel incremental identification methodology tailored to homogeneous reaction systems and extended to multi-phase systems in previous works allows for the decoupling of reaction kinetics and mass transfer and thus avoids the uncertainty in reaction kinetics identification by construction. While the method has been demonstrated in a simulation case study before, it is applied in a real experimental study of a multiphase system thoroughly for the first time.