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Simple single pores as uniform diameter cylinders date back some 50 years [8]. As indicated in Fig. 2, a simple diffusion reaction balance describes surface catalysis in such pores. This analysis is the basis of almost all textbook treatments [9]. The approximation of typically complex labyrinthal pore spaces by such a simplified model is certain to introduce inadequacies into process simulation. 

Many investigators have studied models of the von Foerster type (see Trucco (4) for several references and properties), which belong to the general population balance category used in kinetic theory, particle agglomerization, crystallization, etc. (see Himmelblau and Bischoff (5) for a textbook treatment). We will use the model of Rubinow (6) for reasons discussed below. 

Over a period of time, particularly the last twenty years, researchers have attempted to improve and create models oqrable of describing the influence of porous media in catalytic reaction processes, and they have been aided by the development of computing power and computer modelling techniques. Hence a continual progression has been made from the simple parallel bundle models, which have been the basis of most textbook treatments [1], to stochastic pore network models [2-3] and chamber and throat pore models [4], and more recently fiactal-based models, first introduced by Mann and Wasilewski [5], and subsequently expanded upon by other workers [6-8]. 

The above rate equation is in agreement with that reported by Madhav and Ching [3]. Tliis rapid equilibrium treatment is a simple approach that allows the transformations of all complexes in terms of [E, [5], Kls and Kjp, which only deal with equilibrium expressions for the binding of the substrate to the enzyme. In the absence of inhibition, the enzyme kinetics are reduced to the simplest Michaelis-Menten model, as shown in Figure 5.21. The rate equation for the Michaelis-Menten model is given in ordinary textbooks and is as follows 11... 

The lattice gas has been used as a model for a variety of physical and chemical systems. Its application to simple mixtures is routinely treated in textbooks on statistical mechanics, so it is natural to use it as a starting point for the modeling of liquid-liquid interfaces. In the simplest case the system contains two kinds of solvent particles that occupy positions on a lattice, and with an appropriate choice of the interaction parameters it separates into two phases. This simple version is mainly of didactical value [1], since molecular dynamics allows the study of much more realistic models of the interface between two pure liquids [2,3]. However, even with the fastest computers available today, molecular dynamics is limited to comparatively small ensembles, too small to contain more than a few ions, so that the space-charge regions cannot be included. In contrast, Monte Carlo simulations for the lattice gas can be performed with 10 to 10 particles, so that modeling of the space charge poses no problem. In addition, analytical methods such as the quasichemical approximation allow the treatment of infinite ensembles. 

The simplest treatment of the lattice-gas model is through the mean-field or randommixing approximation, which is treated in a number of textbooks (see, e.g.. Refs. 1 and 4). We give a short summary of its application to liquid-liquid interfaces, since it nicely illustrates under what conditions the phases separate. 

The sp-valent metals such as sodium, magnesium and aluminium constitute the simplest form of condensed matter. They are archetypal of the textbook metallic bond in which the outer shell of electrons form a gas of free particles that are only very weakly perturbed by the underlying ionic lattice. The classical free-electron gas model of Drude accounted very well for the electrical and thermal conductivities of metals, linking their ratio in the very simple form of the Wiedemann-Franz law. However, we shall now see that a proper quantum mechanical treatment is required in order to explain not only the binding properties of a free-electron gas at zero temperature but also the observed linear temperature dependence of its heat capacity. According to classical mechanics the heat capacity should be temperature-independent, taking the constant value of kB per free particle. 

A working understanding of complex variables is essential for the analysis of experiments conducted in the frequency domain, such as impedance spectroscopy. The objective of this chapter is to introduce the subject of complex variables at a level sufficient to understand the development of interpretation models in the frequency domain. Complex variables represent an exciting and important field in applied mathematics, and textbooks dedicated to complex variables can extend the introduction provided here. The overview presented in this chapter is strongly influenced by the compact treatment presented by Fong et al. ... 

In the theoretical derivation of the Langmuir equation (11.22) which is usually presented in some detail in physical chemistry textbooks, the solid surface is modeled as a chessboard (Fig. 11-14), each site of which is able with equal probability to host the adsorbed molecules (no more than one molecule per site is allowed). The treatment is restricted to the case of localized adsorption, i.e. when the exchange between molecules of the gas phase and those adsorbed on the surface is considered, while the possibility of migration of molecules from one site to another is not taken into account. The rates of adsorption and desorption are functions of the fraction of sites occupied, 0a = T / Tmax. If the molecules in the adsorption layer are not interacting with each other, the rate of adsorption, ua, is proportional to the fraction of unoccupied sites, (1 - 0a), and the vapor pressure p ... 

Chemists like to make model compounds to see whether their ideas about mechanisms in nature can be reproduced in simple organic compounds. Nature s reducing agent is NADPH and, unlike NaBH4, it reduces stereopecifically (p. 1150 of the textbook). A model for a proposed mechanism uses a much simpler molecule with a close resemblance to NADH. Acylation and treatment with Mg(ll) causes stereospecific reduction of the remote ketone. Suggest a mechanism for this stereochemical control. How would you release the reduced product ... 

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