Abstract
The general goal of chemical kinetics is the study of the rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions. In moving from fundamental towards more and more applied fields, it is convenient to distinguish pure chemical kinetics, applied chemical kinetics and chemical reaction engineering. The state of the art of the mathematical, numerical, statistical, optimizing, and processing methods available nowadays for solving problems in chemical kinetics allows the mechanistic approach to reach its full potential in two directions: (i) to contribute to the elucidation of the mechanisms of complex reactions and to the determination of the kinetic parameters of elementary processes; and (ii) to permit the design of, calculations on, the optimization of and control of an industrial chemical reactor from the results of a previous mechanistic study. This calls for two requirements: (i) to improve the numerical and processing methods (some directions of research have been indicated above); and (ii) to improve the data bases of fundamental kinetic parameters as well as understanding of general reaction mechanisms.
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