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Experimental investigations dealing with and mathematical models proposed for the kinetics of the transesterification of dimethyl terephthalate with ethylene glycol were critically reviewed. The models were found to be inadequate, while the investigations were found to be entirely lacking in information about the significance of oligomerization reactions. The significance of these reactions was deduced to be negligible by carrying out an analysis of the kinetics of possible ester interchange and transesterification reactions by use of data on methanol reported in the reviewed literature. This analysis was made possible by the application of numerical quadrature routines in testing the assumed models by the integral method.

A new reactor configuration, the annular bed reactor, is mathematically modeled to assess its capabilities as a CO methanation reactor. The results show that the reactor offers excellent temperature control characteristics and negligible pressure drop, and that it is a promising configuration for this as well as other reaction systems.

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