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Various types of reactor configuration may be employed to effect non-catalytic gas—solid reactions. Events occurring during such reactions (see Sect. 5) are complex and industrial equipment for particular applications has evolved with operating experience rather than as a result of analytical design. Those factors which influence the course of the reaction are the reaction kinetics (as observed for a single particle), the size distribution of the solid reactant feed and the flow pattern of both solid and gas phases through the reactor. An excellent account of gas—solid reactions and... 

Price s review [145] gives an excellent account of the mode of occurrence of metals in major constituents in paints and some recommended operating conditions for flame atomic absorption. It may be increasingly necessary to add to the list more exotic metals because of their growing use as markers in security paints. 

The existence of multiple solutions does not ensure that these solutions are physically attainable. In order for these solutions to be physically attainable, they must be stable. The linear stability analysis presented here provides the necessary conditions for the stability. The method of Lyapunov s fimction can also be used to assess the stability and the magnitude of the permissible pertiffbations so that the reactor returns to the steady state. In the case of Unear stability analysis, the eigenvalues of a differential operator determine the stability. An excellent account of the stabihty analysis of chemical reactors can be found in Perlmutter (1972). 

For an excellent account of the Iwo Jima operation, see Lt. Col. Whitman S. Bartley, Iwo Jimu Amphihious Epic (Washington, 19J4). 

Excellent accounts of the development, operation, and safety aspect of this process have been provided elsewhere (Miseralis et al., 1991 Graham, 1970) and are summarized here. 

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Lekner, 1967 Lekner and Cohen, 1967). From the experimental viewpoint, LRGs are excellent materials for the operation of ionization chambers, scintillation counters, and proportional counters on account of their high density, high electron mobility, and large free-ion yield (Kubota et al., 1978 Doke, 1981). Since the probability of free-ion formation is intimately related to the thermalization distance in any model (see Chapter 9), at least a qualitative understanding of electron thermalization process is necessary in the LRG. 

Weber and Newman do the averaging by using a capillary framework. They assume that the two transport modes (diffusive for a vapor-equilibrated membrane and hydraulic for a liquid-equilibrated one) are assumed to occur in parallel and are switched between in a continuous fashion using the fraction of channels that are expanded by the liquid water. Their model is macroscopic but takes into account microscopic effects such as the channel-size distribution and the surface energy of the pores. Furthermore, they showed excellent agreement with experimental data from various sources and different operating conditions for values of the net water flux per proton flux through the membrane. 

The chemical composition and temperature of the process medium greatly influence the choice of material. The acidity or alkalinity, together with the standard operating and maximum temperature, must be taken into account when the material is selected. The toughness and excellent wear of the polyesters must be balanced against maximum working temperature, ease of processing, and the cost. 

In Figure 5 the predictions of the second model are compared against the experimental data published in (2) and obtained in a small, well stirred, vessel reactor with 1 It total volume. The various initiators were tested under conditions representative of polymerization in commercial units, that is with 20 60 seconds residence time and an operating pressure between 1278 and 2352 atm. For the sake of convenience we will use here the same nomenclature and dimensions as in (2). The kinetic parameters used were those given in Table I. The relative size of the two small volumes and the recirculation rates were estimated once and for all cases from equations (13) and (15). The other parameter values, determined independently, were not changed in order to obtain a better fit with the data. As can be seen, the imperfectly mixed model is in excellent agreement with the experimental data, and accurately accounts for the effect of initiator type (Figure 5). 

When the data are known for each of the contributing reactions it is easy, as shown in the table, to calculate what the sum total effect will be, but in laboratory practise the situation is reversed and we try to find out what reaction steps and what rate constants are operating to give us our observed facts. This is a much more difficult task and frequently the differential equation can not be solved by ordinary methods. Furthermore, if a set of reaction steps is found to reproduce the facts we can not be sure that it is the only set of reactions which will account for the over-all observed rate. Excellent examples of these consecutive reactions are found among the disintegrations of the radioactive elements. Frequently the kineticist has to work out intermediate steps in this way for ordinary chemical reactions. It is always to be hoped that one... 

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