Question

Overall rate of reaction in a heterogenous catalytic reaction depends upon the mass and energy transfer from the fluid to solid surface and its rate of reaction is usually __________ the concentration of catalyst, if it does not entail a chain mechanism.

a.

proportional to

b.

independent of

c.

inversely proportional to

d.

proportional to the square of

Answer: (a).proportional to

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