Innovation in process development: From catalyst to industrial process

• Process development from laboratory results to industrial implementation is discussed.
• Modern process development methodology includes pre-development and development phases.
• The main steps for developing industrial catalysts are summarized.
• Chemical and hydrodynamic reactor engineering uses multi-scale modeling.
• Process schemes, simulation, heat integration and process optimization lead to process guidelines.

Process development is a complex process that starts with an analysis of the technical and economic feasibilities of innovative proposals emerging from research work and ends with the oil-in of the first industrial unit. Modern process development strategy draws on complementary skills in the fields of reaction engineering, catalyst development, technology development and process scheme integration and optimization.

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