How Standard Operating Practice Must Change in 21st Century

How Standard Operating Practice Must Change in 21st Century 

As discussed above, numerical tools now exist that make it possible to rigorously test whether chemical kinetic models and data are quantitatively consistent for many important cases. There is good reason to expect that the numerical methods will continue to improve rapidly, so that these quantitative models vs. data tests will become possible for ever more complex experiments. As discussed in Sections II and III, our capability to construct and solve complex simulations is also improving rapidly. 

However, it is far from certain that we will be able to access the experimental data we need for these consistency checks (and for subsequent refinement of the models and model parameters) in a useful format. Historically, the field of 

The PrIMe project (http //www.primekinetics.org) is addressing these serious problems by developing software tools to make it easier for experimentalists to archive their measurements in an electronic format, so that it will be easier for future researchers to use the data for consistency checks and to refine model parameters. 

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