Stability of an isothermal catalytic reaction with complex rate expression
β Scribed by Dan Luss; James C.M. Lee
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1971
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 578 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0009-2509
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β¦ Synopsis
A new lumping technique for determining the stability of distributed systems described by a set of parabolic equations is developed. The method is used to investigate the stability characteristics of an isothermal reaction with a Langmuir-Hinshelwood rate expression occurring inside a catalytic slab. It is shown that when the diffusivities of the two reactants are quite different several pathological effects may occur. For example, a unique unstable steady state may exist for which the concentration profile continuously oscillates. These phenomena are likely to occur for certain hydrogenation and hydrogenolysis reactions which have complex rate expressions.
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Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201100923. It contains full (analytical) details of catalytic experiments (gas-phase and H 2 O analysis), analysis of the possible reaction stoichiometries and simulation of the experimental results.
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