Continuous kinetics of first order degradation reactions in polydisperse mixtures

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Abstract

A continuous version of the kinetic treatment of consecutive degradation reactions obeying a first order formalism is established. This “continuous kinetics” may be applied to degradation processes in complex multi-component systems containing a large number of similar species such as petroleum fractions or polymers.

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