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    Absolutely Complex Balanced Kinetic Systems

    Jose, Editha C.Talabis, Dylan Antonio S. J.Mendoza, Eduardo R.
    40页
    查看更多>>摘要:A complex balanced kinetic system is absolutely complex balanced (ACB) if every positive equilibrium is complex balanced. Two results on absolute complex balancing were foundational for modern chemical reaction network theory (CRNT): in 1972, M. Feinberg proved that any deficiency zero complex balanced system is absolutely complex balanced. In the same year, F. Horn and R. Jackson showed that the (full) converse of the result is not true: any complex balanced mass action system, regardless of its deficiency, is absolutely complex balanced. In this paper, we present initial results on the extension of the Horn and Jackson ACB Theorem. In particular, we focus on other kinetic systems with positive deficiency where complex balancing implies absolute complex balancing. While doing so, we found out that complex balanced power law reactant determined kinetic systems (PL-RDK) systems are not ACB. In our search for necessary and sufficient conditions for complex balanced systems to be absolutely complex balanced, we came across the so-called CLP systems (complex balanced systems with a desired "log parametrization" property). It is shown that complex balanced systems with bi-LP property are absolutely complex balanced. For non-CLP systems, we discuss novel methods for finding sufficient conditions for ACB in kinetic systems containing non-CLP systems: decompositions, the Positive Function Factor (PFF) and the Coset Intersection Count (CIC) and their application to poly-PL and Hill-type systems.

    Mathematical Investigations of a Kinetic Model for Glycerol Hydrogenolysis Via Heterogeneous Catalysis

    Ndlovu, Thandokuhle QuintonShozi, Mzamo L.da Costa, Fernando P.
    24页
    查看更多>>摘要:In this paper we report on some mathematical investigations of the chemical process for the hydrogenolysis of glycerol over a heterogeneous metal catalyst. The main interest of this process is related to the fact that glycerol is produced as a by-product in the production of biodiesel in huge amounts that are expected to exceed the projected demands. This makes the sustainability of biodiesel production depend on the conversion of the glycerol into useful products hence it is a desirable goal to have effective conversion methods. A reaction model from literature is used to derive a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE) which is then analysed using methods from qualitative analysis of ODEs. Numerical solutions of the system are simulated to try and find out the solution's behaviour in the chemistry point of view. It was found that all solutions of the model converge to some stable limit point in a 2-dimensional plane in the positive cone of the R 5 phase space, and the limit point depends on the values of rate constants k i as well as on the hydrogen to glycerol initial ratios. Even though the results are based on a specific kinetic model, it is hoped that they may help in providing tools for better understanding and description of the reaction.