Relative control generation analysis

The human factors audit was part of a hazard analysis which was used to recommend the degree of automation required in blowdown situations. The results of the human factors audit were mainly in terms of major errors which could affect blowdown success likelihood, and causal factors such as procedures, training, control room design, team communications, and aspects of hardware equipment. The major emphasis of the study was on improving the human interaction with the blowdown system, whether manual or automatic. Two specific platform scenarios were investigated. One was a significant gas release in the molecular sieve module (MSM) on a relatively new platform, and the other a release in the separator module (SM) on an older generation platform. 

With the neutral [(RCN)2PdCl2] pro-catalyst system (Fig. 12.3, graph iv), computer simulation of the kinetic data acquired with various initial pro-catalyst concentrations and substrate concentrations resulted in the conclusion that the turnover rates are controlled by substrate-induced trickle feed catalyst generation, substrate concentration-dependent turnover and continuous catalyst termination. The active catalyst concentration is always low and, for a prolonged phase in the middle of the reaction, the net effect is to give rise to an apparent pseudo-zero-order kinetic profile. For both sets of data obtained with pro-catalysts of type B (Fig. 12.3), one could conceive that the kinetic product is 11, but (unlike with type A) the isomerisation to 12 is extremely rapid such that 11 does not accumulate appreciably. Of course, in this event, one needs to explain why the isomerisation of 11 now proceeds to give 12 rather than 13. With the [(phen)Pd(Me)(MeCN)]+ system, analysis of the relative concentrations of 11 and 13 as the conversion proceeds confirmed that the small amount of... 

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