Abstract Testing kinetic models against a “true” and detailed kinetic expression was the aim of the Workshop on Kinetic Model Development at the Denver AIChE Meeting in August, 1983. For this purpose an artificial reaction mechanism was created, based on the known thermodynamics of the methanol synthesis as a framework. The kinetic rate laws, that were derived from this mechanism, were made thermodynamically consistent by achieving agreement between equilibrium constants calculated at various temperatures from the given, real original thermodynamic relationship and those calculated from the detailed reversible kinetic expressions. Using the artificial kinetics as the "true" one, CSTR experiments were simulated. The results of a statistically designed set of experiments were published after 5% random error was added to the data. Participation was invited for all interested to correlate the data, develop kinetic models and to calculate the performance of the specified reactor. The results of 19 submitted en...
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