Chemical Kinetics in Situations Intermediate Between Usual and High Concentrations: Fuzzy-Motivated Derivation of the Formulas

Authors

Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Laécio Carvalho Barros, Universidade Estadual de CampinasFollow

Publication Date

4-2016

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-16-13a

To appear in Proceedings of the 2016 World Conference on Soft Computing, Berkeley, California, May 22-25, 2016.

Abstract

In the traditional chemical kinetics, the rate of each reaction A + ... + B --> ... is proportional to the product cA * ... * cB of the concentrations of all the input substances A, ..., B. For high concentrations cA, ..., cB, the reaction rate is known to be proportional to the minimum min(cA, ..., cB). In this paper, we use fuzzy-related ideas to derive the formula of the reaction rate for situations intermediate between usual and high concentrations.