Process Intensification, 4. Plant Level

The article contains sections titled: 1. Introduction 2. Heat-Integrated Chemical Reactors 2.1. Autothermal Fixed-Bed Reactor Concepts 2.1.1. Weakly Exothermic Reactions 2.1.2. Combination of Exo- and Endothermic Reactions 2.2. Desorptive Cooling of Reactors 3. Reactive Separations 3.1. Reactive Distillation 3.2. Reactive Stripping 3.3. Reactive Absorption 3.4. Reactive Extraction 3.5. Reactive Crystallization 3.6. Reactive Adsorption 3.6.1. Discontinuous Chromatographic Reactors 3.6.2. Continuous Chromatographic Reactors 3.6.3. Sorption-Enhanced Reactors 3.7. Membrane Reactors 4. Other Intensification Concepts on the Plant Level 4.1. Hybrid Separations 4.2. Reactive Mechanical Unit Operations

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