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To proceed with the topic of this section. Refs. 250 and 251 provide oversights of the application of contemporary surface science and bonding theory to catalytic situations. The development of bimetallic catalysts is discussed in Ref. 252. Finally, Weisz [253] discusses windows on reality the acceptable range of rates for a given type of catalyzed reaction is relatively narrow. The reaction becomes impractical if it is too slow, and if it is too fast, mass and heat transport problems become limiting. 

Weisz P B 1981 Molecular shape selective catalysis Proc. 7th Int. Congr. on Catalysis (Tokyo) 1 1... 

Haag W O, Lago R M and Weisz P B 1982 Transport and reactivity of hydrocarbon molecules in a shape-selective zeolite Faraday Disouss. Chem. Soo. 72 317-30... 

Figure 23-19 is one of several by Weisz and Hicks Chem. Eng. ScL, 17, 263 [1962]). Although this predic ts some very large values of T in some ranges of the parameters, these values are mostly not reahzed in practice, as Table 23-5 shows. The modified Lewis number is Lw =... 

FIG. 23-19 Effectiveness of first-order reactions in spheres under adiabatic conditions (Weisz and Hicks, Chem. Eng. Sci., 17, 26.5 [1962]). 

It should be noted that many practically important catalytic transformations (such as isomerization of or hydrocracking of paraffins), which are presumed to proceed via consecutive mechanisms, are performed on multifunctional catalysts, with which the coupling of reactions in the sense just discussed may not necessarily occur. The problem of the selectivity of some models of polystep reactions on these catalysts has been discussed in detail by Weisz (56). 

The studies mentioned in this brief account did not concern the kinetics of complex reactions taking place on the so-called polyfunctional catalysts, which were treated by Weisz (56) the theory of the use of these catalysts has been further worked out for some consecutive or parallel reactions carried out in the reactors with a varying ratio of catalyst components along the catalyst bed [e.g. (90, 91, 91a) ]. Although the description of these reactions, not coupled in the sense defined in Section III, is beyond the scope of this treatment, we mention here at least an experimental... 

Temperature gradients within the porous catalyst could not be very large, due to the low concentration of combustibles in the exhaust gas. Assuming a concentration of 5% CO, a diffusion coefficient in the porous structure of 0.01 cms/sec, and a thermal conductivity of 4 X 10-4 caI/sec°C cm, one can calculate a Prater temperature of 1.0°C—the maximum possible temperature gradient in the porous structure (107). The simultaneous heat and mass diffusion is not likely to lead to multiple steady states and instability, since the value of the 0 parameter in the Weisz and Hicks theory would be much less than 0.02 (108). 

Interpretation of Measurements in Experimental Catalysis P. B. Weisz and C. D. Prater Commercial Isomerization B. L. Evering Acidic and Basic Catalysis Martin Kilpatrick Industrial Catalytic Cracking Rodney V. Shankland... 

Checking the absence of internal mass transfer limitations is a more difficult task. A procedure that can be applied in the case of catalyst electrode films is the measurement of the open circuit potential of the catalyst relative to a reference electrode under fixed gas phase atmosphere (e.g. oxygen in helium) and for different thickness of the catalyst film. Changing of the catalyst potential above a certain thickness of the catalyst film implies the onset of the appearance of internal mass transfer limitations. Such checking procedures applied in previous electrochemical promotion studies allow one to safely assume that porous catalyst films (porosity above 20-30%) with thickness not exceeding 10pm are not expected to exhibit internal mass transfer limitations. The absence of internal mass transfer limitations can also be checked by application of the Weisz-Prater criterion (see, for example ref. 33), provided that one has reliable values for the diffusion coefficient within the catalyst film. 

Wood PJ, Weisz J, Beer MU, Newman CW, Newman RK (2003) Cereal Chem 80 329... 

Interactions between diffusion and chemical transformation determine the performance of a transformation process. Weisz (1973) described an approach to the mathematical description of the diffusion-transformation interaction for catalytic reactions, and a similar approach can be applied to sediments. The Weisz dimensionless factor compares the time scales of diffusion and chemical reaction ... 

KEITH McHENRY Chairman), Amoco Oil Company LESLIE BURRIS, Argonne National Laboratory ELTON J. CAIRNS, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory NOEL JARRETT, Alcoa Laboratories FREDERIC LEDER, Dowell Schlnmberger JOHN SHINN, Chevron Research Company REUEL SHINNAR, City College of New York PAUL B. WEISZ, University of Peimsylvania... 

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