Process Intensification, a tool for Innovative Products: achievements and prospects.
Special Symposium - EPIC-1: European Process Intensification Conference - 1
EPIC-1: Intensified Hydrodynamics & Structured Environments (IHSE-2)
Keywords: intensification, process, products, microtechnologies, gravitation
Process intensification, where the motivation is “doing more with less”, is a design methodology aiming to minimize diffusion phenomena (mass and/or energy transfer). Its first goal is to build smaller, safer and cheaper production plants. An additional goal is to operate in currently difficult if not impossible conditions. Novel equipment and innovative processing methods allow a re-engineering of our chemical plants, relying on eco-efficient processes.
Product engineering is a new emerging goal of process intensification, as properties of products can be closely controlled by strictly mastering the production process. Highly reproducible end-user value (usage quality) can be guaranteed. Operation in continuous mode, in equipment with low axial dispersion, opens new opportunities by sharpening property distributions (molecular weight, particle size, etc.)
The potential development of technologies such as microprocessing, gravitational fields, etc. will be assessed and some real cases presented in synthesis and formulation of liquids but also solids, where progresses will probably be more noticeable.
Presented Wednesday 19, 15:00 to 15:20, in session EPIC-1: Intensified Hydrodynamics & Structured Environments (IHSE-2).
