2019
The Single-event microkinetic (SEMK) modeling methodology has been employed for the simulation of hydrocracking data of linear alkanes with a carbon number in the range from 5 to 12. A major advantage of SEMK is that it maintains the fundamental character of a microkinetic model, i.e., the rate of every elementary step, while reducing the number of adjustable model parameters, which have a clear physical meaning. An extensive experimental data set for hydrocracking of n-octane has been described successfully by the SEMK model by only estimating the protonation enthalpies. This model was subsequently used for n-pentane, n-hexane, n-heptane, n-nonane and n-dodecane.
