Parametric Sensitivity in Chemical Systems [Paperback]

The first book to provide a thorough treatment of parametric sensitivity and sensitivity analysis.The behavior of a chemical system is affected by many physicochemical parameters. The sensitivity of the system to changes in parameters is known as parametric sensitivity. When a system operates in a parametrically sensitive region, its performance becomes unreliable and changes sharply with small variations in parameters. This book is the first to provide a thorough treatment of the concept of parametric sensitivity and the mathematical tool it generated, sensitivity analysis. The emphasis is on applications to real situations. The book covers definitions of various sensitivity indices, numerical techniques most commonly used for their evaluation, and sensitivity analysis in a variety of chemical reactors--batch, tubular, continuous-flow, fixed-bed--and in combustion systems, air pollution, and metabolic processes.The behavior of a chemical system is affected by many physicochemical parameters. The sensitivity of the system to changes in parameters is known as parametric sensitivity. When a system operates in a parametrically sensitive region, its performance becomes unreliable and changes sharply with small variations in parameters. This book is the first to provide a thorough treatment of the concept of parametric sensitivity and the mathematical tool it generated, sensitivity analysis. The emphasis is on applications to real situations. The book covers definitions of various sensitivity indices, numerical techniques most commonly used for their evaluation, and sensitivity analysis in a variety of chemical reactors--batch, tubular, continuous-flow, fixed-bed--and in combustion systems, air pollution, and metabolic processes.The behavior of a chemical system is affected by many physicochemical parameters. The sensitivity of the system's behavior to changes in parameters is known as parametric sensitivity. When a system operates in a parametrically sensitive rlÓ$