SIMULATION OF ADIABATIC BATCH SERIES REACTORS FOR

REACTION OF EXOTERMIC IREVERSIBLE STIRENA

PRODUCTION FROM 1,3-BUTADIENE AND VCH WITH SCILAB 5.5.2

Hansel Milen Santoso *), Mochammad Ghimnastiar Ulsak, Nora Atika Islamiaty

Chemical Engineering Departement, Engineering Faculty, Diponegoro University,

Road Prof. Soedarto, SH, Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia 50275

Abstract

In the chemical industry, kinetic and reactor is very important because the product formation
process occurs in the reactor. For design efficiency, it can be helped by using a computer
program such as Scilab 5.5.2. In general, the styrene reaction from 1,3-butadiene and VCH is
a series reaction. From a thermodynamic review the reaction is exothermic and irreversible.
The programming logic sequence are to call compound data, arrange reactions, determine the
reactor operating conditions, calculate using the reaction kinetics function, then present the
results. The conclusion of this simulation is that as the residence time, the concentration of 1,3-
butadiene substances gets smaller, while the concentration of VCH, styrene, and hydrogen
continues to increase. As the residence time of the reaction of 1,3-butadiene and the reactor
temperature increases due to the influence of the exothermic reaction. The suggestion for the
next simulation is to provide valid datas of activation energy and collision factors in the
reaction with certain substances.

Keywords : stirena, scilab, simulation, butadiene, VCH