Dynamics of the Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor with Reactions A → B → C

Abstract The possible combinations of stable and unstable multipe steady states and bifurcating periodic orbits for the continuous stirred tank reactor with consecutive exothermic chemical reactions A → B → C are found by an extensive numerical search. The resulting response diagrams demonstrate the jump phenomena that are possible during the reactor start-up and shut-down, and they serve as a model for the possible dynamics in other reactor problems, e.g. the tubular reactor and catalyst particle. Furthermore, methods similar to the ones used here for lumped parameter systems apply equally well to distributed parameter systems when certain notational changes are made.

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