Micro chemical plant

We have conducted this research within the Project of Micro-Chemical Technology for Production, Analysis and Measurement Systems financially supported by the New Energy and industrial Development Organization (NEDO). We would appreciate the Micro Chemical Plant Technology Union (MCPT) for their support. 

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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],... 

Within the framework of a BMBF-funded project, five research institutes are developing a standardized system for the combination of micro structured devices and laboratory equipment [86-88], The idea is to integrate devices from many different suppliers to build up a complex chemical plant. This is actually a normal procedure in industrial plant engineering as the large variety of chemical apparatus cannot be delivered from just one supplier. However, this approach is not widely used in micro structured reactor plant technology. Here usually one supplier tries to cover the whole range of devices. 

One of the most widely used chemical plants is certainly the exhaust pipe section of an automobile. The exhaust pipe system of automobiles shows all features of a chemical plant, as it consists of a catalytic reactor, supply pipes for the gases, heaters and control equipment such as the lambda sensor. The catalyst carriers of an exhaust pipe are not called micro structured reactors but, considering their micro dimensions, they actually belong to this group of reactors. 

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