Reaction Kinetics of an Industrial Front‐End Acetylene Hydrogenation Catalyst Using the Advanced TEMKIN Reactor

The front‐end process integration of the selective acetylene hydrogenation provides several advantages over the tail‐end option. But extensive knowledge of the process and reaction kinetics are required. This work combines the ideal conditions of the advanced TEMKIN reactor in a laboratory plant for gradient‐free kinetic analysis of eggshell catalyst under industrially relevant front‐end conditions. With this system an industrial state of the art Pd‐Ag/Al₂O₃ eggshell catalyst is investigated and the temperature dependent data under various feed compositions including information on the formation of C₄‐species are reported.