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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 167, Issue 2-3, Pages 718-726Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2010.08.089
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Process development; Scale-up; Pilot-scale production; Microstructured reactors; Microchannel flow; Pressure loss; Energy dissipation rate; Mixing time; Heat transfer; Reaction kinetics; Flow reactor; Reactor safety; Reactor design
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Microreactors can perform chemical reactions in tiny channels using continuous-flow processes. The microreactor team at Lonza has designed and tested a series of microstructured devices in continuous-flow plants, and performed lab studies of pharmaceutical reactions with successful transfer to commercial production. Microreactor design and scale-up concept is guided by simple correlations, which are described here and displayed in comprehensive diagrams for hydraulic diameter over typical range of flow rate. This leads to a consistent and straightforward scale-up pathway for single-channel microreactors avoiding parallelization from lab development to pilot-scale production. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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