Mathematical modeling of processes of acetoxysilane of ethylene in the domestic catalyst

Vinyl acetate monomer (VA) serves for the production of polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl butyral, copolymers with ethylene and propylene. The world production of vinyl acetate is more than 4 million tons per year. At the present stage of industrial development, vinyl acetate is mainly produced by the catalytic synthesis of ethylene, acetic acid (OC) and oxygen in a ratio of approximately 8:4:1. The conversion rate for one pass is 8 %; 18 %; 45 %. The selectivity for vinyl acetate is 91-92%. The main by-product is carbon dioxide, ethyl acetate, ethylidene diacetate – all not more than 1%. Because of its extreme fire and explosiveness, the process is relatively small. There are approximately 30 such installations in the world. In the Russian Federation, there is only one such production with a capacity of 50,000 tons per year for vinyl acetate (Lukoil, Stavrolen), which was purchased in 1975 under the license of Bayer FRG. To exclude dependence on expensive import supplies, it is important to switch this production to a domestic catalyst or produced in the CIS countries. In this connection, the authors carried out structural and parametric identification and obtained experimental data. In this paper, we present the results of the experiments performed, namely, a dynamic mathematical model for the rate of formation of the target viniacetate (activity) and the secondary-carbon dioxide (DU) of products, which has a fractional-nonlinear structure. It was assumed that the reaction of obtaining the VA proceeds according to the first order, and the formation of the DM is one-and-a-half. To use the model in managing a real production process, parametric identification of the most significant regression coefficients is required.