Rate laws continued with heat effects

Effective control of the temperature of a continuous chemical reactor has several aspects. In the first place we wish to ensure that a certain maximum temperature is realized. This often requires continuous cooling. The average reactor temperature follows from heat balances. But we also have to attain a sufficient dynamic stability. In any continuous process small variations in feed conditions will occur. Dynamic stability requires automatic corrective actions, so that disturbances in the reactor concUtions are damped rapidly. Therefore, continuous reactors are usually connected with automatic control loops. An effective temperature control is particularly important in view of the strong dependency of reaction rate constants on temperature, which is shown by Arriienius law ... 

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