Development and experimental validation of reactor kinetic model for catalytic cracking of eugenol, a potential bio additive fuel blend

Abstract

Abstract An integrated kinetic model representing catalytic cracking of eugenol in a fixed bed reactor is developed. Eugenol, a major component of clove oil can act as the most potential bio additive fuel for improving the diesel quality thereby reducing the exhaust emission of the engine. The proposed integrated model includes four lump kinetic model which is plugged with catalyst deactivation model. The reactor design parameters are also included in the integrated model. The effectiveness of the proposed integrated model is compared with the conventional kinetic models and the results are presented. The proposed integrated model is validated against the real time data obtained by conducting an experiment in a real time setup with MoS2(Ni2P) Al-SBA-15(10) as the catalyst. The advantages of the proposed integrated model are highlighted.