New method for computer aided analysis of steady-state multiplicity of catalytic processes

Non-isothermal reaction-diffusion systems with thermodynamically coupled heat and mass transfer

“…Modeling of spatio-temporal evolution may serve as a powerful complementary tool to experimental non-isothermal reaction-diffusion (RD) systems within a porous catalyst particle and membrane (Weisz and Hicks, 1962, Hlavecek et al, 1969, Aris, 1975, Froment and Bischoff, 1979, Dekker et al, 1995, Pan and Zhu, 1998, Levent et al, 1998, Levent, 2001, Kafarov et al, 1998and Burghardt and Berezowski, 2003Selegny et al, 1995a andSelegny et al, 1995b). Non-isothermal RD systems represent thermodynamically and mathematically coupled transport and chemical processes, and need a through analysis, as they may evolve multiple steady states with unique dynamic phenomena (Burghardt and Berezowski, 2003).…”