AUTOCATALYSIS IN WELL-STIRRED OPEN SYSTEMS THE ISOTHERMAL CSTR

AUTOCATALYSIS IN WELL-STIRRED OPEN SYSTEMS THE ISOTHERMAL CSTR 

This chapter and chapter 7 introduce open systems. Though of the simplest kind, they permit multiple stationary states. These are truly stationary and may be quite different from the state of final equilibrium. After a study of this chapter, which deals with stationary states in isothermal systems, the reader should be able to  

From a theoretical point of view, however, this arrangement is not so satisfactory. Even for the B-Z system, the bromide electrode record 

A much better experimental arrangement is one in which true stationary states can be realized. These are conditions under which the net rates of production or removal of all species become zero simultaneously and hence the composition within the reactor ceases to change. The reaction can then be studied against a constant and, in principle, fully characterized background, 

A continuously fed well-stirred tank reactor (CSTR) for solution-phase reactions. 

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