“…In our kinetic analysis each reaction step is allowed to either control the overall conversion rate or to proceed close to equilibrium. The adsorption of the double bonds of O and E on the supported nickel surface (A1 and B1) is usually assumed to be at equilibrium (Vandenheuvel, 1956;Van der Plank, 1972a,b;Zwicky and Gut, 1978;Gut et al, 1979), though nonequilibrium adsorption was also incorporated to fit experimental data (Tsuto et al, 1978;Grau et al, 1986;Mu ¨nzing et al, 1986). Van der Plank and Van Oosten (1975) concluded from migration of double bonds of monoene FAME molecules that the first hydrogen insertion should be rate determining.…”