The conference, chaired by John T. Herron of the Chemical Kinetics Division of NIST, was attended by 240 scientists from 14 countlries representing academic, government and private sector institutions. Engineering Company. The range of the sponsors is indicative of the broad range of interests and applications which were the subjects of the conference. The conference followed the tradition of p...

In this paper we discuss the question of how to decide when a general chemical reaction system is incapable of admitting multiple equilibria, regardless of parameter values such as reaction rate constants, and regardless of the type of chemical kinetics, such as mass-action kinetics, Michaelis-Menten kinetics, etc. Our results relate previously described linear algebraic and graph-theoretic con...

The paper presents some different methods for a chemical exothermic batch reactor control. A mathematical model including reaction kinetics was used to simulate a real process. The process chemical reaction is strongly exothermic so the in-reactor temperature is rising very fast due to reaction component dosing. Thus, the temperature control is necessary. The system is nonlinear because of chem...