Esterification of ethanol with sulfuric acid: A kinetic study
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Experiments were conducted in a stirred batch reactor under isothermal conditions for obtaining kinetics of the esterification reaction between ethanol and sulfuric acid. Reactive adsorption technique was employed to enhance the conversion. Anhydrous sodium sulfate was used as an adsorbing agent to remove the water formed during the reaction. The variables include the mole ratio of ethanol to sulfuric acid, reaction temperature, purity of the reactants, and the amount of adsorbing agent. The reaction was found to be reversible and second order at low mole ratios, and irreversible and first order at high mole ratios. The kinetic parameters of the rate law were estimated. A possible reaction mechanism was proposed and validated with the experimental data. The effect of the mole ratio of reactants, anhydrous sodium sulfate loading, and purity of the reactants on the yield of ethyl hydrogen sulfate was studied, using full‐factorial search and optimized conditions were obtained by the method of steepest ascent. More precise optimum conditions were obtained using the Box‐Wilson composite method.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".