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| mode | behaviour | problems | advantages |
| isothermal | reaction mass 'forced' to const. temp. by heat exchange or convective flow | difficult controlling (rem: parametric sensitivity in TFRs) | easy reactor design |
| adiabatic | no heat exchange with the surrounding, heat can only be 'removed' by convective flow in continuous reactors | too high heat production a bit more difficult reactor design |
no pretentious controlling, only emergency shutdown |
| polytropic | running some sort of 'temperature program' by controlling or 'autothermal conduction' | difficult reactor design and possibly controlling | good adaption in zones |
see a blackbord sketch of the various possibilities for the 3 basic reactor types
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