Abstract
Pyrolysis of n-heptane was investigated in a tubular reactor in the temperature range of 793–953 K and pressure range of 0.1–2.93 MPa. At all conditions, the main products were methane, ethylene, ethane, propylene, 1-butene, 1-pentene and 1-hexene. With an increase in pressure, the selectivities of hydrogen, methane, ethylene and propylene decreased and that of propane, n-butane and 1-butene increased. To explain the product distribution at high pressure, the Rice–Kossiakoff theory was modified by including the bimolecular reactions of alkyl radicals with the parent hydrocarbon. The initial product selectivities, calculated using the modified R–K mechanism, were in good agreement with the experimental selectivities. The overall kinetics of n-heptane pyrolysis was determined by non-linear analysis. The optimum values of the kinetic parameters at each pressure were determined by minimizing the difference between the calculated and experimental conversions. At each pressure, the reaction order was close to unity and the activation energy ranged between 209 and 219 kJ mol −1.
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