UNCATALYZED OXIDATION OF CYCLOHEXANE IN A CONTINUOUS REACTOR

This paper examines the kinetics of the oxidation of cyclohexane. Reco gnising that catalytic effects of the reactor wall may impact on the k inetics of organic oxidations, especially in laboratory scale reactors , these experiments are conducted in an aluminium reactor. In addition , a novel technique is introduced which permits these oxidation reacti ons to be studied without the intervention of gas-liquid mass transfer and thus yields homogeneous kinetics data. A kinetic model for the re action is proposed. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.