Overall rate of reaction in a heterogeneous catalytic reaction depends upon the mass and energy transfer from the fluid to solid surface and its rate of reaction is usually ________________ the concentration of catalyst, if it does not entail a chain mechanism?

A. Independent of

B. Proportional to the square of

C. Inversely proportional to

D. Proportional to

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