Microreactor Concepts and Processing

Micro Instrumentation: For High Throughput Experimentation and Process Intensification-a Tool for PAT

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 85-129

  Hessel, Volker ^a   Löb, Patrick ^a   Löwe, Holger ^b   Kolb, Gunther ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR MIKROTECHNIK MAINZ GMBH   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Case studies; Establishing a novel chemistry; Fine chemistry; Fine chemical microreactor plants; Free radical polymerizations; Functional chemistry; High throughput experimentation; Industrial microreactor process development; Industrial production; Kolbe Schmitt Synthesis (IMM); Michael Addition; Microinstrumentation; Microreactor concepts; Microreactor laboratory scale process developments; Microreactor processing; Microreactor technology; Process intensification; Production range; Scale out issues; Technology developments; Tool for PAT

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889326311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527610624.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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