Sucrose inversion: An experiment on heterogeneous catalysis

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2003

Authors

Adélio Mendes (Author) FEUP; Fernão de Magalhães (Author) FEUP; Luís M. Madeira (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: International Journal of Engineering Education

Vol. 19 No. 6

Pages: 893-901

ISSN: 0949-149X

Publisher: Dublin Institute of Technology Tempus Publications

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Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Other engineering and technologies

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-000-JXS

Abstract (EN): Illustration of heterogeneous catalysis concepts in laboratory courses is not usually simple or economical. For our undergraduate senior lab course we have developed an environmentally friendly experiment dealing with several aspects of heterogeneous catalysis, having in mind the use of readily available and relatively inexpensive equipment and chemicals on a compact setup, which students can safely operate. The experiment deals with the acid-catalyzed sucrose inversion, performed in packed bed chemical reactors, where the catalyst is a cation-exchange resin in the H+ form. An additional reactor is included for illustrating an enzyme-catalyzed system. The conversion achieved is determined using the Flow Injection Analysis technique.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 9