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A dangerous failure of the scientific process is exposed and the situation is corrected. Oscillatory thermal instability was well-known to chemical engineers from the 1950s to the 1990s, and a great many theory and experimental papers on the topic were published during that period in the mainstream chemical engineering literature. But since then there seems to have been a collective amnesia on an entire branch of mainstream chemical engineering research.
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There is hope that the message is getting through - as of 15/08/2014 this paper has been downloaded 1090 times from https://anu-au.academia.edu/RowenaBall and 181 times from https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rowena_Ball.
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This page is a summary of: Thermal instability and runaway criteria: The dangers of disregarding dynamics, Process Safety and Environmental Protection, May 2013, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.psep.2012.05.008.
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