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The upper-bound hne connects discontinuous points, but polymers exist near the bound for separations of interest. Whether these will be available as membranes is a different matter. A useful membrane requires a polymer which can be fabricated into a device having an active layer around 50 nm thick. At this thickness, membrane properties may vary significantly from bulk properties, although not by a factor of 2. 

The method of test functions is quite applicable in verifying convergence and determining the order of accuracy and is stipulated by a proper choice of the function I7(x). Such a function is free to be chosen in any convenient way so as to provide the validity of the continuity conditions at every discontinuity point of coefficients. By inserting it in equation (1) of Section 1 we are led to the right-hand side / = kU ) — qU and the boundary values jj, — U(0) and = U 1). The solution of such a problem relies on scheme (4) of Section 1 and then the difference solution will be compared with a known function U x) on various grids. 

When the available functions k x), q x) and f[x) happen to be of the class 1] and their discontinuity points are known, a non-equidistant grid can be made so that all discontinuity points of the coefficients k, q and / would be nodal points of such a grid. We denote by any such... 

In the case of continuous coefficients expressions (5) imply that Oj = ki i, di = qi and ipi = fi- If discontinuity points coincide with nodal points of the grid uij, that is, x = Xi j2, then the members a, di and [Pg.170]

We are now interested in the question concerning the accuracy of scheme (4) with second-order approximation on an arbitrary non-equidistant grid. A discontinuity point a = is free to be chosen for the relevant coefficients ... 

By identifying the endpoints x = 0 and a = 1 on the same grounds as before, the condition of periodicity is to be understood as the condition of conjugation at a discontinuity point of the coefficient k x,t). From such reasoning it seems clear that, having stipulated the condition = j/,... 

Let a , be a discontinuity point of both functions k and /. To avoid cumbersome calculations, the usual practice involves the simplest formulas for finding a and pp. 

M02(s) at temperature T. Each discontinuity point in die diagram indicates die phase change of a species involved in the formation reaction. For instance,... 

However, the discontinuous coordinate transformation described above can introduce difficulties in the peak shift measurement, particularly when vibrational energy relaxation Tj occurs on a similar timescale as dephasing, which is often the case for vibrational transitions, but generally not for electronic transitions. In that case, the peak shift can be zero at the discontinuous point r = 0, although the overall —ki + k2 + k3 and the +ki — k2 + k3 signals are not at all identical. Therefore, we have chosen to use the normalized first moment of the —ki + k2 + k3 signal... 

An advantage of gas flow techniques is that they can be used for two veiy different types of procedures, i.e. either the discontinuous point-by-point procedure with a non-adsorbable carrier gas (cf. Section 3.3.1) or a continuous adsorption procedure (Section 3.3.2). The limitation is that the amount adsorbed is evaluated by integration of the gas flow over a period which may range from five minutes to several hours. Therefore, great stability and accuracy of the flowmeter are essential. The checklist given above for gas adsorption manometry is equally applicable to gas flow techniques. 

Let us first consider the case of a discontinuous, point-by-point procedure. An absolute or perfect equilibrium can of course never be attained, since it is limited by the fluctuations of (a) the adsorbent temperature, (b) the residual gas temperature, and (c) the baseline of the pressure transducer. As a consequence, after a certain time, the system is as close as it will ever get to true equilibrium. Nevertheless, this time may be relatively long (e.g. it may take hours to determine each point). The experimenter may then decide to be less demanding in order to save time. A convenient way to operate, which lends itself to automation, is the following ... 

The choice of the adjectives continuous an6 discontinuous" points to topological relations between the... 

The polymerization sequence can be plotted using a phase diagram (Figure 14.1) [11]. This diagram is representative for nearly all polymer (rubber-polymer (glassy polymer)-common solvent systems. Point a is the composition of the feed. The critical point (phase separation) is reached at point b. Further polymerization generates more glassy polymer (SAN) and phase inversion occurs at point c (rubber continuous —> discontinuous). Point d is reached when all monomer is converted. 

None of the curves drawn in Figure 8 have a discontinuous point. The figure reveals that the correlation in the results from the start to the end of the runs between the pilot and commercial units is considerably improved from that in Figure 7. The figure can be used for predicting the remaining life of the catalyst system, because the deactivation of the catalyst system at the end of the commercial run can be estimated. 

For the present case of phthalide, the physical meaning for the negative effectiveness factor phenomenon is that while the reaction conditions at the bulk show that the net rate on the catalyst surface should be production of phthalide, the actual net rate on the catalyst surface is in fact a consumption of phthalide. The net reaction rate on the catalyst surface and at the bulk conditions are shown in Table 5.3a and the discontinuity point is clearly apparent at 789.05 K which shows that the net reaction rate at the bulk changes its sign from negative to positive. 

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