Estimating rate constants of heterogeneous catalytic reactions without supposition of rate determining surface steps an application of a genetic algorithm

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1189-1199

  Wolf, Dorit ^b   Moros, Ralf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

adaptive random search; catalyst; Genetic algorithm; kinetics; modelling; parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

CATALYSTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HYDROCARBONS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REACTION KINETICS;

CATALYTIC REACTIONS; NELDER MEAD ALGORITHMS; RATE DETERMINING STEPS (RDS);

METHANE;

EID: 0031128318     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(96)00479-4     Document Type: Article

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