Effects of product occupancy on self-organization in heterogeneous catalysis. I. Multiple steady states and temporal oscillations.

A Langmuir–Hinshelwood-type model for isothermal reactions in small pellets of microporous solids can exhibit multiple steady states, oscillations, and coexistence of one oscillatory state with up to two stationary states, if blocking of active sites by the product is taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]