ABSTRACT
Process intensification is one of the most promising development paths for chemical process industry. Stankiewicz and Moulijn [1] stated that the philosophy of process intensification is characterized by four words – smaller, cheaper, safer, and slicker. Smaller refers to miniaturized units for operation as well as reduction in the number of units due to integrated operations. Enhanced conversions due to equilibrium shift in integrated reactive separations, better separations owing to high surface to volume ratios in novel equipment and new modes of operations lead to significant improvements in economics and are therefore cheaper. Operations in miniaturized equipment need very low inventory and contribute to safer operations. All these factors together lead to smaller and more compact plants that are considered to be slicker and contributing to sustainable technological development.
