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The first two categories, clarifying and crossflow filters, have been very well developed and optimized for use in biotechnology and standard wastewater treatment applications. Equipment is easily available for these applications, whether as small 0.2 micron sterilizing filter used to terminally sterilize 100 ml of product solution, or a small 500 ml crossflow filter used to concentrate a small amount of antibody solution. Many vendors of this equipment to wastewater treatment applications have their origins in the CPI (Chemical Process Industries), and have incorporated many of the scale-up and optimization properties developed in much larger units used in large scale chemical production. As a result, these two filtration unit operations are one of the most optimized and efficient used in wastewater treatment. 

Selectivity may also come from reducing the contribution of a side reaction, e.g. the reaction of a labile moiety on a molecule which itself undergoes a reaction. Here, control over the temperature, i.e. the avoidance of hot spots, is the key to increasing selectivity. In this respect, the oxidative dehydrogenation of an undisclosed methanol derivative to the corresponding aldehyde was investigated in the framework of the development of a large-scale chemical production process. A selectivity of 96% at 55% conversion was found for the micro reactor (390 °C), which exceeds the performance of laboratory pan-like (40% 50% 550 °C) and short shell-and-tube (85% 50% 450 °C) reactors [73,110,112,153,154]. 

Modem electrochemistry has vast applications. Electrochemical processes form the basis of large-scale chemical and metaUnrgical production of a number of materials. Electrochemical phenomena are responsible for metallic corrosion, which causes untold losses in the economy. Modem electrochemical power sources (primary and secondary batteries) are used in many helds of engineering, and their production figures are measured in billions of units. Other electrochemical processes and devices are also used widely. 

Batchwise operating three-phase reactors are frequently used in the production of fine and specialty chemicals, such as ingredients in drags, perfumes and alimentary products. Large-scale chemical industry, on the other hand, is often used with continuous reactors. As we developed a parallel screening system for catalytic three-phase processes, the first decision concerned the operation mode batchwise or continuous. We decided for a continuous reactor system. Batchwise operated parallel sluny reactors are conunercially available, but it is in many cases difficult to reveal catalyst deactivation from batch experiments. In addition, investigation of the effect of catalyst particle size on the overall activity and product distribution is easier in a continuous device. 

Since surfactants are commercially produced by means of large-scale chemical processes, complex mixtures of homologues and isomeric compounds, e.g. non-ionics of the alkylethoxylate type that may differ in length of alkyl as well as polyether chains, can result. The determination and differentiation of the products in quality control during production and trade is a somewhat easier task. However, more difficulties arise in the analysis of the compounds of these mixtures and formulations in environmental samples. 

Not until the industrial era did people want to make large quantities of products to sell, and only then did the economies of scale create the need for mass production. Not until the twentieth century was continuous processing practiced on a large scale. The first practical considerations of reactor scaleup originated in England and Germany, where the first large-scale chemical plants were constmcted and operated, but these were done in a trial-and-error fashion that today would be unacceptable. 

Ethanol. Ethanol is the most important chemical produced by fermentation, and it has the potential to become a major feedstock for the chemical industry since many other large-scale chemicals can be produced from ethanol. In fact, ethanol can in many respects be considered a renewable alternative to ethylene, which is the largest volume carbon-containing chemical produced from fossil resources today. Via catalytic dehydration, ethanol can easily be converted into ethylene and diethyl ether, both of which are well-known acid catalyzed processes. Almost all available... 

Depletion of fossil oil resources and concern about environmental pollution, especially heavy metals and greenhouse gases, have brought biomass into focus as a renewable source of raw materials for large-scale chemicals and energy production (1). The biomass refinery of the future will require a powerful toolbox of processes for converting complex plant matter into useful commodity and specialty products. 

A review of the commercial processes discussed thus far serves to illustrate the frequency with which salts serve as raw materials for the chemical industries. The salts so employed may be either naturally occurring materials or the principal products or by-products of other large-scale chemical operations. It is not feasible here to consider these matters either broadly or exhaustively. Only a few of the more common types of salts are considered briefly in the following subsections. 

Natural products, with an annual biomass production of 170-180 billion tons, have a huge potential as resources for the chemical industry so far, only 4% of these resources are used [1]. In Germany, about 16% of chemicals are currently produced from renewable resources. Today, mainly fossil resources such as coal, natural gas, and crude oil are used as starting materials in large-scale chemical processes. For the use of renewable raw materials, new ways have to be found to be able to use them effectively. There are basically three ways that are commonly used [2] ... 

Large-scale chemical Processing conditions, Deviations from the nominal... 

Like many other large-scale chemical processes, the economics of inorganic membrane separation and reaction processes is very sensitive to capital investments and operating costs. While little accurate cost data is a able for extrapolation, some guidelines on various cost components have been cx i.icted from the literature for rough cost estimates. Caution should be exercised to use the data for comparison purposes. 

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