Chemical Process Engineering & Simulation

Process Intensification: Process Intensification (PI) has been defined as “a philosophy of plant design and construction whereby a given performance is achieved in very much smaller equipment - typically with a volume reduction of two or three orders of magnitude” [2]. These reductions in size can come from using smaller individual pieces of equipment or by cutting the number of unit operations or pieces of equipment used in the process. A volume reduction of a factor of two or more (not necessarily two orders of magnitude) was considered by [3] to be drastic enough to be labelled PI and this work broadened the definition of PI to include a dramatic increase in production capacity within a given volume, a significant decrease in energy consumption per ton of product, or large decreases in waste or by-product formation. The concept of Process Intensification (PI) was developed within ICI in the late 1970’s when Colin Ramshaw began to look into various ways of reducing the size...