Immobilized catalase: deactivation and reactor stability.
The quasi-steady behavior of a continuous flow reactor in which hydrogen peroxide is decomposed by immobilized catalase is investigated. Under certain conditions, reactors involving such substrate-inhibited, self-poisoning reactions are susceptible to sudden failure and the reactor moves catastrophically from high- to low-conversion quasi-steady states. This exchange-of-steady-states phenomenon is examined in the light of experimental evidence for the enzyme catalase from bovine liver.
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Department of Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York 13676, USA.
Weiland
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