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compounds (Siebel and Charcklis, 1991). There are many other instances where<br />

these colonies are unwanted, and much ef<strong>for</strong>t is taken to discourage their growth<br />

(Peyton, 1996 and Melo and Vieira, 1999). It is important to understand how<br />

this diversity coupled with environmental parameters will influence the systems’<br />

overall consumption rate.<br />

1.2 Previous Work<br />

1.2.1 The Two Particle System<br />

Two simple systems have been used to gain insight into the effect <strong>of</strong><br />

interactions between spheres and hence the overall consumption rate. These are<br />

Smoluchowski’s (1916) solution <strong>for</strong> the infinitely dilute (monopole) system and<br />

the two sphere system where the solution is generated with either the twin<br />

spherical expansion (Ross, 1968 and 1970) or the bispherical coordinates system<br />

(Morse and Feshbach, 1953). Since Smoluchowski’s (1916) solution does not<br />

deal with interacting particles, it is insufficient <strong>for</strong> dense interacting systems<br />

found through out engineering; this means solving the two-sphere problem is<br />

essential <strong>for</strong> the second–order correction <strong>of</strong> the density expansion (Mattern and<br />

Felderh<strong>of</strong>, 1987) <strong>for</strong> the more realistic systems found throughout engineering and<br />

science.<br />

Four studies have focused on diffusion reaction <strong>for</strong> a pair <strong>of</strong><br />

monodispersed (same size) particles (Sampson and Deutch, 1977; Zoia and<br />

Strieder, 1998; Strieder and Saddawi, 2000; and Tsao, 2001). All <strong>of</strong> these<br />

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