Continuous Coating Processes in the Polymer Industry

2 Adaptation of Industrial Online Processes to Micro Structured Reactor Manufacturing 

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If one is confronted with expensive manual work with low complexity, a typical industrial approach would be to automate such a standard manual procedure. This will not only reduce costs of staff but will also increase the reproducibility of the coating procedure, which is an extremely important fact in catalyst development. 

It is readily imaginable that this process can be transferred into a continuous partially automated procedure similar to a non-woven line. The new production process will also permit the broad availability of catalysts on micro structures. A wide application of these catalysts was up to now hindered by the costs per unit and the non-existent technology for industrial production. The process is also applicable to heat exchangers, which can just be considered as uncoated reactors. 

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