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Fakultät Bio- und Chemieingenieurwesen
SCIENTIFIC HIGHLIGHTS 2021

Predicting Solvent Effects on Homogeneity and Reaction Kinetics

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A Thermodynamic Approach Using PC-SAFT

Solvents provide the reaction environment of all liquid-phase reactions in the chemical industry and may significantly affect
reaction rates and the phase behavior of complex reaction media. Especially, if a reaction is performed in solvent mixtures,
a high experimental effort is required to quantify these effects. Within this work, we developed a novel thermodynamicactivity-
based approach to predict solvent effects on both reaction rates and phase behavior using the PC-SAFT model.
This approach allows gaining in-depth process insights and is applicable to a wide variety of liquid-phase reactions.