Things You May Not Know About Continuous Flow Chemistry

The chemical industry has used continuous production techniques for quite a long time. However, it is only recently that flow equipment has become available for use at a laboratory scale, especially in the pharmaceutical industry.

The flow processes established in the lab can now be readily transferred to the production facilities and scaled up for commercial use without substantially altering reaction conditions.

Flow processes offer broad advantages, such as significant heat and mass transfer, superior inherent safety, flexibility, reproducibility, energy efficiency, high reactor throughput, fast and effective mixing, low footprint, in-line with automation, and low operating cost.

In this article, find a comparison review of batch and continuous processes as well as the advantages of a continuous flow process over a classical batch process.