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We show that for reaction-transport processes with fast kinetics (in the limit of thermodynamic equilibrium), conventional volume averaging for determining effective kinetic parameters applies only when the macroscopic variable approaches its equilibrium value. Even under such conditions, computing the effective mass transfer coefficient requires solving an eigenvalue problem, which couples the local...