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Hydrodynamic cavitation reactors have been investigated for more than a decade now in the UDCT Department of Bombay University [63-66]. When applied to some industrially relevant reactions, the hydrodynamically created cavitation appeared to dehver on average an order of magnitude higher cavitation yields than the acoustic cavitation. In addition, the processing volumes could be up to about 100 times larger than in the conventional sonochemical reactors. So far, there is no information about the industrial applications of the hydrodynamic cavitation reactors, although some concepts have already been patented [67]. 

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Dr. Karwa completed high school in Bombay, India, and later studied medicine at the University of Bombay. After medical school, she immigrated to Canada. She completed residency training in anesthesia at the University of Toronto and now works at St. Joseph s Health Science Centre as a staff anesthesiologist. 

Mansukhlal Wani was born on February 20, 1925, in Nandurbar, Maharastra, India. He attended grade and high school in his hometown and then earned his bachelor s degree in chemistry (1947) and his master s degree in organic chemistry (1950) from the University of Bombay. He emigrated to the United States in 1958 and enrolled at Indiana University, from which he received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1962. He accepted a position with RTI in 1962 and has remained with the organization ever since in the position of Principal Scientist. 

Dr. Patnaik was a post-doctoral research scientist at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. His B.S. and M.S. in chemistry are from Utkal University, India, and his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. 

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Acknowledgement. We wish to express our deep gratitute to Dr. V. Sudarsanam (formerly of CIBA, Bombay, India), for many useful discussions and wise counsels that made this review possible. Our sincere thanks are also due to Dr. S. N. Swami (Pfizer, UK) and Professor A. M. Lobo (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) for their unflagging interest shown. We are indebted to Ms. F. Lopes da Silva for the painstaking attention in the preparation of the manuscript. 

Mrinalini Walawalkar is a Reader at the University Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. Previously she was a Scientific Officer at IIT-Bombay and an Alexander-von-Humboidt Fellow at Bochum and Gottingen Universities. Her current research interests are in the area of inorganic materials. 

Dr. S. Rajappa (b. 1934) obtained his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from the Madras University in 1958. After a short stint as lecturer at the IIT, Madras, he proceeded to the USA to gain postdoctoral experience, first at the Florida State University and then at Harvard (Prof. R. B. Woodward). In 1%4, he returned to India to join the CIBA Research Centre in Bombay, where he continued for nearly 22 years. He was promoted to manager, and head of the Synthetic Chemistry Division in 1984. 

We wish to thank Professor Wayland E. Noland and Dr. Akram Sandhu, University of Minnesota, Professor C. R. Kanekar and Dr. G. Govil, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, and Dr. N. S. Narasimhan, Poona University, for having read the manuscript and making invaluable comments and suggestions which have helped us to improve this article. We also wish to thank Professor S. Siddappa, Karnatak University, for his keen interest and encouragement. One of the authors (R.S.H.) acknowledges the University Grants Commission for a scholarship. 

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