A.S. Jadhav, R.D. Nalawade and D.P. Gaikwad
Abstract
Kinetics of esterification has emerged as a field of growing interest and importance, in last three decades due to large number of powerful applications in many engineering fields. The commercial applications have demanded to generate the esters, in massive quantity. Thereby the research work has been started to fulfil the commercial need of one of such important ester viz. mono (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate or simply MEHP. Due to dielectric and plasticity nature, MEHP is predominantly used in massive quantity in electric and plastic industries along with wide number of other commercial applications. To have good commercial profit, it is the need of commercial market to generate such type of ester class which satisfy most of the applications in optimum cost. To fulfil this requirement, the properties, kinetics, easy & fast analysis method, use of programming methods like MATLAB for quick calculations becomes the prominent facts. Selection of route is also important for the formation of mono (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate in environment point of view. This also affect on operational cost. This paper is the serious attempt and partial fulfilment made to accomplish this goal.