Problems with more than one chemical reaction

Problems with more than one chemical reaction 

In section 11.3 vie showed that the difficult problem of solving the flux relations can be circumvented rather simply when the stoichiometric relations are satisfied by the flux vectors, but the treatment given there was limited to the case of a single Independent chemical reaction, when the stoichiometric relations permit all the flux vectors to be expressed in terms of any one of them. The question then arises whether any comparable simplification is possible v en the reactants participate in more than one independent reaction. 

Before attempting to answer this question, let us first summarize the procedure of section 11.3 in a slightly modified form. Equations (11.20) and (11.21) provide a set of simultaneous ordinary differential equations to determine the pressure and the composition, represented by mole fractions Xi.Xn in terms of the dummy variable. If at least one of the x s varies monotonically with X, so that its derivative never vanishes, we may use this x in place of X as an Independent variable. Without loss of generality this x may be labelled x, so we may divide equation (11.20) and each equation (11.21) for r = 2.n-l, by equation (11.21) 

These ordinary differential equations may then be solved for p,,  

On substituting this into equation (11.97) we obtain a second order differ- 

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