Process Industries Characteristics

This chapter describes the structural elements of process industries in such a way that for specific innovations the industrial context, relevant stakeholders and potential partners can be identified. For each innovation project choices have to be made what is part of the innovation project and what is relevant context. Suppose that a company wants to build a novel process in a country that is new to the company. Then it is important to know the context of that new process, so that the questions can be answered: What is available in that country of industrial infrastructure? Will the process be built on a brown field, that is in a location where other process industries are present in an industrial complex or is it to be built on a green field where all supporting facilities such as utilities have to be built as well? This chapter can also be seen as a language description of the process industries. It defines important, most used terms to help to communicate about innovation in the process industries.