Surface-Coverage Modification of the Rate Expression

The A refers to the change that occurs in passing completely from reactants to products in the ith reaction. More specifically, 

Thermochemical properties of gas-phase, surface, and bulk species are assumed to be available. This information is used in the calculation of the equilibrium constant, Eq. 11.110, and thus the reverse rate constant, Eq. 11.108. There is not a great deal of thermochemical data for species on surfaces, but techniques are becoming available for their calculation (e.g., Pederson et al. [310]). If surface reactions are specified to be irreversible, or if Arrhenius coefficients for the reverse rate constant are explicitly supplied, then the thermochemical data are not actually used. 

In some cases experimental data indicate that the Arrhenius expression for the rate constant (Eq. 11.107) is modified by the coverage (concentration) of some surface species. Many functional forms for such coverage-dependence are possible. We describe one such choice that allows both the pre-exponential factor and the activation energy to be functions of the surface coverage of any surface species. The general modification of the Arrhenius rate expression is 

For reactions with optional coverage dependence, the rate of progress is calculated using Eq. 11.104, with the forward rate coefficient from Eq. 11.113. 

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