“…Within a normally operated RD column, the resin surfaces are mostly wetted by the liquid phase; thus, only the liquid phase reaction is considered, although the catalyst also behaves with activity for a gas phase reaction. A plausible mechanism indicates the disproportionation reactions are second order, and the net forward reaction rates for eqs – are , where x 0 , x 1 , x 2 , x 3 , and x 4 are the liquid-phase mole fractions of STC, TCS, DCS, MCS, and silane respectively; r is the reaction rate; k and K are the reaction rate constant and the chemical equilibrium constant, respectively, which can be expressed as where k 0 and K 0 are pre-exponential factors, E is the activation energy of forward reaction, and Δ H is the heat of reaction. For the present case, their values are regressed from experimental data as summarized in Table .…”