Multipurpose vessel pharmaceuticals

The procedure described in the previous section is only applicable, if the reaction vessel considered is used for just one single process. In this case all necessary substance and system data can be obtained experimentally at a reasonable expense. In the fine chemicals and pharmaceutical industry, however, multipurpose plants are preferred. They are required in order to be able to respond adequately to the fast changing development activities and the continuously changing mass demands. During project engineering activities for such a plant the problem may arise that several hundred different syntheses are expected to be performed on this plant, of which may be half are known chemically due to current activities. 

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