Pattern formation in Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction : A few improvements in open reactor design

Abstract

<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:" times="" new="" roman";="" mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:="" en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="">Pattern formation in the Belousov-Zhabotinskii reaction has <span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family: " times="" new="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;="" mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="">been <span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family: " times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="">investigated in a continuously <span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-fareast-font-family: " times="" new="" roman";mso-ansi-language:en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;="" mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="">fed <span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family: " times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";mso-ansi-language:="" en-us;mso-fareast-language:en-us;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="">unstirred gel reactor with some improvements in the reactor design. The modified reactor does not need an external pressure gradient to remove CO₂ bubbles. Instead of expensive capillary arrays a cheap porous diaphragm is used to ensure that there is some non-perpendicular flow with respect to the plane of wave propagation during feeding.</span></span></span></span></span>