Early Concepts for Micro Structured Reactor Plant Design

Early Concepts for Micro Structured Reactor Plant Design 

Plants used in micro reaction technology span a wide range of geometrical scales and operational limits. Also a variety of application modes such as commercial, research or training purposes are found. Supplier-specific set-ups exist which intend 

It must be pointed out again that even today confusion of terms can be observed when chemical engineers discuss miniplants or microplants . In most of these cases they identify with the terms mentioned above chemical plants made of glassware with volumes in the range of up to a few liters. To summarize, at that early stage no specialized micro structured reactors for production purposes were available. Most of the fabricated micro structured devices were made in terms of micro fabrication capabilities and not adapted to the chosen chemical process. It is no wonder that at first visionary theoretical work either had to be based on conventionally fabricated chemical reactors or did not outline reactor design in detail [30], 

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