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Carrier-mediated passage of a molecular entity across a membrane (or other barrier). Facilitated transport follows saturation kinetics ie, the rate of transport at elevated concentrations of the transportable substrate reaches a maximum that reflects the concentration of carriers/transporters. In this respect, the kinetics resemble the Michaelis-Menten behavior of enzyme-catalyzed reactions. Facilitated diffusion systems are often stereo-specific, and they are subject to competitive inhibition. Facilitated transport systems are also distinguished from active transport systems which work against a concentration barrier and require a source of free energy. Simple diffusion often occurs in parallel to facilitated diffusion, and one must correct facilitated transport for the basal rate. This is usually evident when a plot of transport rate versus substrate concentration reaches a limiting nonzero rate at saturating substrate While the term passive transport has been used synonymously with facilitated transport, others have suggested that this term may be confused with or mistaken for simple diffusion. See Membrane Transport Kinetics... 

The Gibbs function is a measure of the maximum work possible at a given state from a constant temperature and pressure reversible process. It can be shown from a combination of the first and second laws of thermodynamics for a simple compressible system that the Gibbs function of a system will always decrease or remain the same for a spontaneous process. Consider the differential of the Gibbs function ... 

The limitations of one-dimensional (ID) chromatography in the analysis of complex mixtures are even more evident if a statistical method of overlap (SMO) is applied. The work of Davis and Giddings (26), and of Guiochon and co-workers (27), recently summarized by Jorgenson and co-workers (28) and Bertsch (29), showed how peak capacity is only the maximum number of mixture constituents which a chromatographic system may resolve. Because the peaks will be randomly rather than evenly distributed, it is inevitable that some will overlap. In fact, an SMO approach can be used to show how the number of resolved simple peaks (5) is related to n and the actual number of components in the mixture (m) by the following ... 

It was noted early by Reed and others that the IETS spectrum could exhibit both absorption and emission peaks - that is, the plots of Fig. 9 could have positive excursions and negative excursions called peaks and dips. The simple analysis suggested in Fig. 9 implies that it should always be absorptive behavior, and therefore that there should always be a peak (a maximum, an enhancement) in the IETS spectrum at the vibrational resonances. It has been observed, however, that dips sometimes occur in these spectra. These have been particularly visible in small molecules in junctions, such as in the work of van Ruitenbeek [92, 109] (Fig. 12). Here, formal analysis indicates that, as the injection gap gets smaller, the existence of an inelastic vibrational channel does not contribute a second independent channel to the transport, but rather opens up an interference [100]. This interference can actually impede transport, resulting in a dip in the spectrum. Qualitatively, this occurs because the system is close to an electronic resonance without the vibrational coupling the conductance is close to g0, and the interference subtracts from the current. 

The principle of operation of this device is simple. A small amount of the flowing water volumetrically displaces foam concentrate from the tank into the main water stream. The working pressure of the vessel must, of course, be above the maximum static water pressure encountered in the system. This type of proportioner may consist of one tank or pressure container with a watertight divider so that it operates as two tanks, two tanks separately connected to the water and foam solution lines, or the tanks in the system may each be fitted with flexible diaphragms or bladders to separate the "driving" water from foam concentrate or they may rely simply on differences in density of the two liquids to retard mixing during operation. 

Typical functions of the middle layer are anti-reset windup, variable structure elements, selectors, etc. Although essential for the proper functioning of any practical control system, they have been completely neglected in research circles. We have yet to find an effective multivariable anti-reset windup scheme that works on all our test cases. Can all, or at least most, industrial control problems be solved satisfactorily with some simple loops and minimum-maximum selectors How can the appropriate logic structure be designed How should the loops be tuned to work smoothly in conjunction with the logic How can one detect deteriorating valves and sensors from on-line measurements before these control elements have failed entirely ... 

Our recent work on the bismuth-cerium molybdate catalyst system has shown that it can serve as a tractable model for the study of the solid state mechanism of selective olefin oxidation by multicomponent molybdate catalysts. Although compositionally and structurally quite simple compared to other multiphase molybdate catalyst systems, bismuth-cerium molybdate catalysts are extremely effective for the selective ammoxidation of propylene to acrylonitrile (16). In particular, we have found that the addition of cerium to bismuth molybdate significantly enhances its catalytic activity for the selective ammoxidation of propylene to acrylonitrile. Maximum catalytic activity was observed for specific compositions in the single phase and two phase regions of the phase diagram (17). These characteristics of this catalyst system afford the opportunity to understand the physical basis for synergies in multiphase catalysts. In addition to this previously published work, we also include some of our most recent results on the bismuth-cerium molybdate system. As such, the present account represents a summary of our interpretations of the data on this system. 

A simple but effective system for the routine measurement of the pressure dependence of E up to 300 MPa is described below. " In practice, a working pressure range 0.1-200 MPa is adequate for most purposes as the pressure range is increased, the experimental difficulties and uncertainties worsen. Furthermore, experience has shown that AF is generally more or less independent of pressure (that is, that plots of E against the pressure are linear within the experimental uncertainty) over this range. On the other hand, extension of the maximum pressure to 1 GPa can give information on the anticipated " pressure dependence of af. - ... 

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