CHEMICAL-REACTION ENGINEERING OF COMPLEX-MIXTURES

Recent advances in the description and analysis of chemical kinetics in complex multicomponent mixtures are reviewed. The pitfalls intrinsic to experiments performed on either the real mixture or model compunds are discussed. Describing correctly the kinetics does not, however, exhaust the chemical reaction engineering of such systems, and many open problems are left in the area of reactor configurations other than the batch and plug flow reactor, and in reaction networks with some degree of topological complexity. The methodology of approach to such problems is discussed, and some partial results are presented.