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Gas/Liquid Mass Transfer in Small Laboratory Batch Reactors: Comparison of Methods Vale´ rie Meille, Nathalie Pestre, Pascal Fongarland, and Claude de Bellefon* Laboratoire de Ge´ nie des Proce´ de´ s Catalytiques, CNRS-CPE, BP 2077, 69616 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
The interest and accuracy of using the physical absorption of hydrogen to determine kLa in small batch reactors (25-300 cm3) are revisited. The results are compared with those obtained by carrying out the hydrogenation of R-methylstyrene, a fast chemical reaction with known intrinsic kinetics. 1. Introduction Small (
