title: Mixing efficiency and instrumental delay effect on recorded kinetic curves.
abstract: The effect of reactant addition time and instrumental response time on recorded kinetic curves was considered. The mixing-time. effect was considered for first- and second-order reactions in the case that a simple function of the concentration is measured, and for first-order reactions in the more complex case of non-adiabatic enthal-pimetric measurements. For any ratio of addition time to half-transformation time the proposed equations allow calculation of the correct rate constant and the error in the calculated initial concentration extrapolated from the experimental curve and show which portion of the experimental curve must be disregarded owing to the misleading effect of the addition time. The distortion due to the response-time of a thermistor used as concentration transducer has been calculated from a simplified model. The experimental kinetic measurements performed by quasi- and non-adiabatic enthalpimetry agree very satisfactorily with the theoretical data.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Chimica Analitica, Universita' di Bari, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Caselli
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cavaggioni
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Papoff