Optimal design of experiments for the identification of kinetic models of HMF hydrogenation

The increasing issues about the use of fossil raw materials advocate for an increasing utilization of biomass-based fuels and chemicals. In this work, the kinetic models currently available in literature for the HMF hydrogenation process are investigated to figure out their strengths and weaknesses using a sensitivity-based identifiability analysis that allows to define a set of fully identifiable kinetic models to be used for statistically reliable parameter estimations.