Product identification supporting research activities

This coevolution model has a number of uses. From the research perspective, it can support the classification of the present state of the art related to coevolution of products, processes, and production systems together with the identification of research areas that are poorly addressed but represent potential for future activities. From the industrial perspective the model enables the fi aming of approaches supporting coevolution... 

Bosch and co-workers devised laboratory reactors to operate at high pressure and temperature in a recycle mode. These test reactors had the essential characteristics of potential industrial reactors and were used by Mittasch and co-workers to screen some 20,000 samples as candidate catalysts. The results led to the identification of an iron-containing mineral that is similar to today s industrial catalysts. The researchers recognized the need for porous catalytic materials and materials with more than one component, today identified as the support, the catalyticaHy active component, and the promoter. Today s technology for catalyst testing has become more efficient because much of the test equipment is automated, and the analysis of products and catalysts is much faster and more accurate. 

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