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External-diffusion gas-phase mass transfer in the catalytic hydrogenation of hydrocarbons was studied theoretically and experimentally. For the model of a stationary diffusion film around a catalyst pellet, an approximate solution of Maxwell-Stefan equations was obtained, which allowed the multicomponent diffusion problem to be reduced to a Fick equation involving a pseudobinary effective diffusion coefficient. A comparison was made between the theoretical and experimental results for the hydrogenation of α-methylstyrene, octene, and their mixtures.
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Kirillov, V.A., Kuzin, N.A., Kulikov, A.V. et al. External diffusion control in the gas-phase dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons on a catalyst pellet. Theor Found Chem Eng 34, 475–484 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02827392
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