This class is for Reaction Kinetics, chemical engineering using Fogler's fourth edition, Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering.

Q#3. Rice and Herzfeld have proposed the following mechanism for the acetaldehyde decomposition: CH, CHOK, , CH; + CHO CH; +CH, CHO kz CHA+CH,CO k CH,CO CH;+CO CHO ks CH, CHO +H' CH,CO +H, 2 CH; , K3 ky ,CO+H k, C,H, Use pseudo-steady state (Bodenstein) approximation to derive a rate expression for the formation of methane. Experiments show that the rates of ethane formation and hydrogen formation are nearly identical. Is this observation consistent with the proposed mechanism