title: HERSIM: a microcomputer program designed to compute the limits of conversion for real homogeneous isothermal enzymic reactors.
abstract: HERSIM is a program written in BASIC designed to aid the investigator interested in determining the substrate conversion in a real homogeneous isothermal enzymic reactor, for various kinetic equations. The program runs after tracer data relative to a Dirac impulse to the reactor have been entered, and computes the two limits of real conversion: total segregation and maximum mixedness. The kinetic constants of the reacting system are input as data, and the variation of conversion with reactor temperature between given limits is computed as accurately as requested.
authors.affiliation: Escola Superior de Biotecnologia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto.
authors.forename: F X
authors.initials: FX
authors.lastname: Malcata
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003201:Computers; D004798:Enzymes / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D008838:Microcomputers; D012984:Software; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D004798:Enzymes