Simultaneous determination of reaction order and rate constant by rank annihilation factor analysis from kinetic-spectral data Original Research Article

Rank annihilation factor analysis combined with the optimization of kinetic parameter is adopted to resolve the two-way kinetic-spectral data measured online from chemical reactions. To a multi-step reaction whose intermediate process is complicated and reaction order is fractional, the reaction order and rate constant of the first step can be determined without the knowledge of the kinetic model of the reaction. Taken a three-step reaction as an example, the synthetic data has been resolved and its effectiveness was proved. When the approach is applied to the analysis of practical reaction systems such as alkaline hydrolysis of phenyl benzoate, oxidization of sodium bromide by potassium permanganate and electro-degradation of sunset yellow, reliable results are obtained.