I NTERNATIONAL J OURNAL OF C HEMICAL R EACTOR E NGINEERING Volume 5 2007 Article A10 Kinetics of the Hydrogenation of Sunflower Oil over Alumina Supported Palladium Catalyst Mar´ ıa B. Fern´ andez * Gabriela M. Tonetto † Guillermo Crapiste ‡ Daniel E. Damiani ** * PLAPIQUI (UNS-CONICET), mbfernandez@plapiqui.edu.ar † PLAPIQUI (UNS-CONICET), gtonetto@plapiqui.edu.ar ‡ PLAPIQUI (UNS-CONICET), gcrapiste@plapiqui.edu.ar ** PLAPIQUI (UNS-CONICET), ddamiani@plapiqui.edu.ar ISSN 1542-6580 Copyright c 2007 The Berkeley Electronic Press. All rights reserved.