Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.101, No.50, 9678-9680, 1997
Enhancing the performance of spontaneously oscillatory chemical reactions
Oscillations are often deemed undesirable when chemical reactions are carried out in practice because they tend to give rise to operational complexities, It is demonstrated that such oscillations need not always be avoided. In fact, the yield of the desired product from an autocatalytic reaction in a continuous stirred-tank reactor can be, at least, quadrupled.