Elements of Chemical Kinetics

Source Fogler, H. S., 1974. The Elements of Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Calculations— A Self-Paced Approach, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ... 

Prettre, M. Claudel, B. Elements of Chemical Kinetics Gordon Breach Science Publishers London, 1970. 

Fooler The Elements of Chemical Kinetics and Reactor Calculations A Self-Paced Approach Himmelblau Basic Principles and Calculations in Chemical Engineering, 5th edition Holland Fundamentals and Modeling of Separation Processes Absorption, Distillation, Evaporation, and Extraction... 

In this chapter we shall show how the observed phenomena may be explained by means of elementary catastrophe theory. In principle, the discussion will be confined to examination of non-chemical systems. However, some of the discussed problems, such as a stability of soap films, a phase transition in the liquid-vapour system, diffraction phenomena or even non-linear recurrent equations, are closely related to chemical problems. This topic will be dealt with in some detail in the last section. The discussion of catastrophes (static and dynamic) occurring in chemical systems is postponed to Chapters 5, 6 these will be preceded by Chapter 4, where the elements of chemical kinetics necessary for our purposes will be discussed. 

M. PRETTRE and B.CLAUDEL, Elements of Chemical Kinetics, Gordon and Breach (1970)... 

A series of a processes including, for example, the uptake of atmospheric molecules into liquid particles such as fog or rain droplets followed by liquid phase reactions is called multiphase reactions, while a process in which molecules react on solid aerosol surface is often called heterogeneous reactions. However, since these terms are often used confusingly, and the processes contain common elements of chemical kinetics, they are treated together in this section. 

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