Datasets for Statistical Analysis

Oxidation rate of benzene

Keywords:

oxidation; chemical kinetics

Categories:

science and engineering;
generalized linear models

Description:

The data give the initial rate of benzene oxidation over a vanadium oxide catalyst using three different reaction temperatures and varing oxygen and bezene concentrations.

There are 54 observations on six variables (entire data file) or on four variables (subset data file). The first column in each is an identifier.

Variables:

Run	An identifer
Conc.O	The oxygen concentration (by 10,000 gmole/litre)
Conc.B	Benzene concentration (by 10,000 gmole/litre) (only appears in entire data file)
Temp	The temperature (in degrees Kelvin)
O.per.B	The observed number of moles of oxygen consumed per mole of benzene (only appears in entire data file)
Rate	The reaction rate (by 1019 gmole/gram of catalyst-second)

Data Quality:

There are no missing values.

Source:

D. J. Pritchard and J. Downie and D. W. Bacon (1977). Further consideration of heteroscedasticity in fitting kinetic models, Technometrics, 19(3), 227–236.

Notes:

The reduced data set only gives data for Benzene concentration near 20 (actually, larger than 19 and smaller than 21). It also omits the variables O.per.B and Conc.B

References:

Originally from Jaswal, Mann, Juusola and Downie (1969). The vapour-phase oxidation of benzene over a vandium pentoxide catalyst. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 47(3), 284–287.