General Properties of the Rate Function for a Single Reaction

4 I General Properties of the Rate Function for a Single Reaction 

The rate of reaction is generally a function of temperature and composition, and the development of mathematical models to describe the form of the reaction rate is a central problem of applied chemical kinetics. Once the reaction rate is known. 

CHAPTER 1 The Basics of Reaction KiriRtins for Chemical Reaction Fngineering 

Below are listed general rules on the form of the reaction rate function (M. Boudart, Kinetics of Chemical Processes, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1991, pp. 13-16). The rules are of an approximate nature but are sufficiently general that exceptions to them usually reveal something of interest. It must be stressed that the utility of these rules is their applicabdity to many single reactions. 

The nile liinetion. r. at constant teniperature generally deerease.s in a monutonic fashion with the extent of reaction (see Ficiire 1.4.1). 

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