Application Areas – Petrochemicals and Fine Chemicals

In this and three subsequent chapters, applications of the technologies discussed in earlier chapters of this book are described. Some remain research projects, but in a number of cases industrial uses are detailed. In the majority of instances it will be seen that process intensification can give impressive improvements in one or more process characteristics, such as unit operation size, output quality, environmental impact, etc. In this chapter we concentrate on the chemical process industries, ranging from petrochemicals and bulk chemicals to fine chemicals and pharmaceutical products. However, a major new section relates to the use of process intensification in carbon capture, from power stations (predominantly) but equally relevant to a variety of process plants, as well as offshore activities (see Chapter 9).

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