Kinetics of the catalytic hydrogenation of d-fructose over a CuO-ZnO catalyst

The fitting of the experimental data to the kinetic model was carried out by Modest software using a combined Simplex-Levenberg-Marquardt method. The proposed kinetic model was able to predict the experimental concentrations of fructose and mannitol as well as the by-products sorbitol and glucose with a better than 95% degree of explanation.