I am currently in the process of completing my mass balance for the isomerisation of n-butane. I have a hydrogen stream coming in and so is the case with many research papers. I have three main questions:
1. As I mentioned, a lot of papers have hydrogen in the same reactor with n-butane, even though they mention that hydrogen inhibits the isomerisation of n-butane, so why do they add it?
2. If the hydrogen is going inside the reactor, then how does it react with the n-butane? Could you maybe give me a brief description of the process?
3. I'm new to isomerisation and I've been trying to find the chemical equations involved in the process of isomerisation of n-butane, so that I can do my calculations of my mass balance, but I haven't found any that give the total picture (I need to know how the n-butane converts and what it converts to, because all I see in research papers is methane and ethane produced along with isobutane (desired product) and other C1-C3 products, which I don't know how to incorporate in my mass balance.
Any other advice or valuable piece of information on the process?
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