“…This is evidenced by the large number of literature studies (Babcock et al, 1957;Satterfield et al, 1969;Germain et al, 1974;White et al, 1974;Morita and Smith, 1978;Herskowitz et al, 1979;Turek and Lange, 1981;El-Hisnawi et al, 1982;Funk et al, 1991;Cini and Harold, 1991;among others). These studies demonstrate that the liquid-phase/catalytic reaction is mass-transport-limited with respect to sparingly soluble hydrogen (in Cini and Harold (1991) showed that for a sufficiently low AMS concentration the rate is positiveorder in AMS.…”