A mathematical study was carried out for a stirred reactor in which the feed and product streams were periodically interrupted. The cycled reactor proved superior to a continuous stirred‐tank reactor for first‐ and second‐order reactions, and surpassed a plug‐flow reactor for those cases in which the reaction rate passes through a maximum, such as autocatalytic and exothermic adiabatic reactions. Temperature‐programmed cycled reactors were also studied, but appeared to have little advantage over conventional reactors.
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Codell et al. (1971) studied this question.
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