%0 Journal Article %@ 0133-1736 %A Patnaik, P R %D 1989 %F open:655 %I Springer Science %J Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters %N 2 %P 305-310 %T Transient analysis of a batch reactor with temperature fluctuations %U http://crdd.osdd.net/open/655/ %V 39 %X Temperature fluctuations for two consecutive reactions in a batch reactor have been modeled as Gaussian white noise. Analytical solutions of the Fokker-Plank equations show that noise significantly changes the concentration profiles, lowers the yield and destroys the error distribution. %Z Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.