A lumping analysis in mono- or/and bimolecular reaction systems

✍ Scribed by Li Genyuan

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 678 KB
• Volume: 39
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(84)85087-3

✦ Synopsis

Abslraet-In many chemical processes, particularly those related to the petroleum industry, the number of reacting species is very large. It is often expedient to lump all the species into a few classes for practical purposes. This paper presents a theoretical study on the exact lumping of a mono-or/and bimolecular reaction system. One can obtain the necessary and sticient conditions under which the kinetics of the lumped classes can be exactly described by a complex first-or/and second-order reaction scheme. Many implications of these lumpability conditions are investigated.

JNTRODUCnON

In many important industrial processes the reaction mixtures contain a large number of reacting species. Analytical difficulties and costs usually prevent the determination of the detailed kinetics of these complex reaction networks and it is customary to lump the species into independent reactive classes and treat each one as a pseudo-component.

Wei and Kuo[l] presented a general lumping analysis for monomolecular reaction system. Since then many papers on lumping analysis have been