Guidelines for Selecting Batch Processes

Douglas [5] gives an excellent review in selecting a batch process in favor of a continuous process. The factors that favor batch operations are summarized as follows  

Water Phase Solution Tank Monomer Bulk Storage 

Fig ure 4-25. A loop reaotor produotion system. (Source M. Wilkinson and K. Geddes, An Award Winning Process. Chemistry in Britain, December, 1050-1052, 1993.) 

Effect of reactor design on size and productivity for a gas-liquid reaction 

Reactor type Batch stirred tank reactor Loop reactor 

Source Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS). Guidelines for Engineering Design for Process Safety. New York AIChE, 1993a. 

Plug flow if the reaction rate monotonically decreases with conversion 

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