Chemical microprocess engineering

Hessel, V., Hardt, S., and Lowe, H. "Chemical Microprocess Engineering. Fundamentals, Modelling and Reactions". Wiley VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA, Weinheim... 

Chemical MicroProcess Engineering -Fundamentals, Modeling and Reactions,... 

V. Hessel, S. Hardt, H. Lowe, Chemical Microprocess Engineering, Fundamentals, Modelling and Reactions, 1st ed., Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, 2004, pp. 379-650. 

These designs have been implemented mostly at the macroscale (industrial or laboratory scale), but many developments at the microscale have also been reported under the trendy headline of chemical microprocess engineering, not only for laboratory-scale measurements but also at the production scale [21, 22]. Guettel and Turek [23] compared microstructured... 

Pennemann, H. and Hessel, V. and Lowe, H. (2004). Chemical microprocess technology - from laboratoiy-scale to production. Chemical Engineering Science, 59, 4789-4794. 

Fine-chemical processes convert raw materials to higher-value materials with a total annual value much higher than the costs of a typical microprocessing plant and its engineering. To illustrate this, the example of... 

Dow Chemical in Midland, USA, the microprocess technologist Velocys in Plain City, USA, and PNNL in Richland, USA, as research institute in microreactor technology have a public funded project on high-intensity production of ethylene and other olefins by oxidation such as the formation of ethylene from ethane [1], A two-step reactor engineering is performed, starting with a bench-scale reactor with microchannel dimensions equal to the latter commercial unit and followed by numbering to the latter. An economic analysis with focus on reactor costs and energy consumption completes the project. 

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