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Flow Reactors
Citation:
Buono, F. G., M. GONZALEZ, AND J. Müslehiddinoğlu. Flow Reactors . Chapter 19, W. Zhang and B.W. Cue, Jr. (ed.), Green Techniques for Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry, ISBN: 9780470711514. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Hoboken, NJ, , 523-549, (2012).
Impact/Purpose:
To inform the public
Description:
The twelve principles of Green Chemistry presented by Anastas and Warner provide the philosophical basis and identify potential areas to increase the level of greenness in designing or implementing chemical reactions in the pharmaceutical industry. With these efforts in mind, the number of opportunities increases significantly with the introduction of Chemical Engineering and the principles of Green Engineering for process design, scaling up and the use of alternative reactor configurations and geometries for influencing reaction conditions. Although there are many existing and novel reactors and reactor geometries in practice in industry and academia, for the focus of this chapter, the authors will limit the discussion to miniaturized and process intensified flow reactors.
