Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Authors: Grigorii Yablonskii, Valerii Bykov, Aleksandr Gorbanʹ, Vladimir Elokhin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Minimum minimorum -- The development of basic concepts of chemical kinetics in heterogeneous catalysis -- Formalism of chemical kinetics -- Graphs in chemical kinetics -- Simplest non-linear mechanisms of catalytic reactions producing critical phenomena -- Studies of kinetic models for oxidation reactions over metals (exemplified by CO oxidation) -- Critical retardation effects and slow relaxations.

This book has been written by a group of mathematicians and chemists whose common interest is in the complex dynamics of catalytic reactions. Based on developments in mathematical chemistry, a general theory is described that allows the investigation of the relationships between the kinetic characteristics of complex reactions and their detailed reaction mechanism. Furthermore, a comprehensive analysis is made of some typical mechanism of catalytic reactions, in particular for the oxidation of carbon monoxide on platinum metals. In fact, the book presents "three kinetics": (a) detailed, oriented to the elucidation of a detailed reaction mechanism according to its kinetic laws; (b) applied, with the aim of obtaining kinetic relationships for the further design of chemical reactors; and (c) mathematical kinetics whose purpose is the analysis of mathematical models for heterogeneous catalytic reactions taking place under steady- or unsteady-state conditions.

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