Choice of Idealized Reactor Model

Consider now which of the idealized models is preferred for the six categories of reaction systems introduced in Section 5.2. 

Single reactions. Consider the single reaction from Equation 5.1  

Cfeed = molar concentration of FEED a = order of reaction 

Multiple reactions in parallel producing byproducts. Consider the system of parallel reactions from Equation 5.4 with the corresponding rate equations1-3  

The ratio of the rates of the secondary and primary reactions gives 1 3  

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