ISSN:
0001-1541
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Chemical Engineering
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
Continuum approximation is often used to treat problems involving reaction mixtures of a vast number of species. Previous studies predicted that in many situations the lumped kinetics of a continuum of reactions, regardless of their kinetics, are of the power law form after a long time. In this article we present experimental support for such asymptotic power law kinetics. The system considered is catalytic deep desulfurization of a petroleum distillate. In addition, a theoretical analysis is made to establish the condition under which the continuum approximation is valid in the long-time limit. The condition turns out not to be very stringent for practical purposes.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aic.690410615
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