Which risk increases when designing an industrial catalytic reactor for high throughput?

💡 Explanation

If mass transport significantly slows down the reaction kinetics at higher throughput then mass transport limitations become rate-limiting, thereby impeding efficient catalysis, because the reactants cannot reach the active sites quickly enough; therefore, high rates impact equilibrium rather than thermodynamic favorability.

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