Kinetic Model with Effect of Water Content for Enzyme-Catalyzed Citronellyl Laurate Esterification Process
A kinetic model with effect of water content for enzyme-catalyzed citronellyl laurate was developed. These models incorporate the combined influences of established kinetics model with the function model on the effect of initial water content with kinetic parameters. The model development was carried out by performing a linear and nonlinear regression based on the behavior of the kinetic parameter profiles and validated with experimental data. Using the developed models, the influence of water content towards the enzyme-catalyzed initial rate of reaction was theoretically explained. It has been shown that the proposed model have good agreement between experimental data and intends to capture the effect of water content towards the conversion of ester. With this model, the optimal value of initial water content for this process could be estimated.