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From the foregoing discussion it is evident that any discussion of the chemistry of sulfenes is in fact a description of reactions in which sulfenes are believed to be formed and then to react, without (except for the few special instances mentioned above) any direct signs of sulfene participation. The case for sulfene intermediacy is usually indirect though not necessarily lacking in rigour. In practice, we have a core of carefully studied reactions in which a number of pieces of evidence combine to prove that sulfenes are formed and then react. In addition to these, there are two classes of reactions for which sulfene intermediacy can reasonably be discussed. The first of these consists of reactions which are either straightforward extensions of known sulfene reactions for which the appropriate tests for the sulfene have not been done, or, alternatively, reactions which can be rationalized as... 

The dynamics of the system under study can, in fact, be recovered from a variety of stimulus response tests. These include impulse and step response experiments, and frequency response and cross-correlation techniques. Descriptions of these methods and the interrelationships between them are discussed in many references, see, for instance, refs. 22—25 and Sects. 3.2.1—3.2.4 of this chapter. 

Every student who has just read that this course will involve descriptions of industrial process and the history of the chemical process industry is probably already worried about what will be on the tests. Students usually think that problems with numerical answers (5.2 liters and 95% conversion) are somehow easier than anything where memorization is involved. We assure you that most problems will be of the numerical answer type. However, by the time students become seniors, they usually start to worry (properly) that their jobs will not just involve simple, weU-posed problems but rather examination of messy situations where the boss does not know the answer (and sometimes doesn t understand the problem). You are employed to think about the big picture, and numerical calculations are only occasionally the best way to find solutions. Our major intent in discussing descriptions of processes and history is to help you see the contexts in which we need to consider chemical reactors. Your instructor may ask you to memorize some facts or use facts discussed here to synthesize a process similar to those here. However, even if your instructor is a total wimp, we hope that reading about what makes the world of chemical reaction engineering operate wiU be both instmctive and interesting. 

The curves shown in Fig. 5.78 indicate the ability of the model to give a reasonable description of the performance of the fermentations. The authors of the paper, however, draw attention to the fact that that the prediction of the RNA component was nowhere as accurate and concluded that the model had failed. This, they pointed out, was a necessary test to prevent the model from becoming merely a curve fitting exercise as opposed to a mechanistic model. 

It is clear from the apparatus description in Fig. 2.49 that carrying out tests to measure extensional rheometry is a very difficult task. One of the major problems arises because of the fact that, unlike shear tests, it is not possible to achieve steady state condition with elongational rheometry tests. This is simply because the cross-sectional area of the test... 

The actual Fourier transform is a digital calculation, so not all frequencies are tested. In fact, the number of frequencies tested is exactly equal to the number of time values sampled in the FID. If we start with 16,384 complex data points in our FID (16,384 real data points and 16,384 imaginary data points), we will end up with 16,384 data points in the real spectrum (the imaginary spectrum is discarded). Another difference from the above description is that the actual Fourier transform algorithm used by computers is much more efficient than the tedious process of multiplying test functions, one by one, and calculating the area under the curve of the product function. This fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm makes the whole process vastly more efficient and in fact makes Fourier transform NMR possible. 

A serious disadvantage of automated data processing is the fact that the researcher is deprived of those hours of leisure, in which he or she plotts results in silence and seclusion on the double-log scale and this opportunity is used to think over whether or not the data evaluated in this way make sense or if they should rather be represented in another fashion. No graphical representation of test data is in the first instance more suitable than that on the double-log scale. This approach shows better and quicker whether it is suitable for the description, or if a simple-log scale would possibly fit better. Furthermore, curves on the double-log scale can easily be converted into straight lines (Y = aX b) or in simple analytical expressions of the form (Y = aX bX ). Of course, a statistical balancing of the coefficients and exponents can be left to the computer afterwards. 

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