B. Srinivasan et al., REACTION AND FLOW VARIANTS INVARIANTS IN CHEMICAL-REACTION SYSTEMS WITH INLET AND OUTLET STREAMS/, AIChE journal, 44(8), 1998, pp. 1858-1867
The concept of reaction invariants is extended to include flow invaria
nts of chemical-reaction systems with inlet and outlet streams. A tran
sformation to normal form is introduced that allows the separation of
(1) the evolution of the independent reactions, (2) the influence of i
nlet streams, and (3) the behavior of the reaction and flow invariants
. In the light of this transformation to normal form, model reduction,
state accessibility, state reconstruction, and feedback linearizabili
ty are analyzed.