CHE 321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Invertible Matrix, Detailed Balance, Reaction Rate Constant
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Consider n species 1,2, , that are involved in a set of first-order reversible reactions. , = 1,2, , is a rate constant of reaction producing from . , =, (1) is the concentration of . The rate of reaction can be written as: Consider an isothermal constant volume, well stirred batch reactor. Define = 12 (3) can be written as: = 0 has solutions, but one of them will satisfy, = 0 = 0 = 0 . Eigenvalues are 0,1,2, , 1 1,2, ,. ,0 = 0. This means not only system is in equilibrium, but also every reaction is independently in equilibrium. 2017 meenesh r. singh (mrsingh@uic. edu) k ij k a ji k is a symmetric matrix. K has real eigenvalues has real eigenvalues. k. 8eq x j x i k j i k ij k. Theorem: let a be a symmetric matrix (with real eigenvalues) and x be any vector in n d .