D. Kirschneck,
Manufacturing efficiency by modular multipurpose plants
chimica oggi/Chemistry Today - vol 28 n 1 January/February 2010
http://chemistry-today.teknoscienze.com/index.asp

This work presents a new innovative concept, how basic manufacturing needs of small and medium scale manufacturing tasks can be moved to a higher level of efficiency. The basic idea of the concept is to combine the long time known performance of continuous processing with the flexibility of today’s common batch synthesis. The concept uses a modularized continuous plant concept, where the needed flexibility is provided by first rearrangement of the processing modules and second modularity within each module to adjust it according to the needs of each chemical reaction. This gives the possibility to reach a continuous processing performance by means of a flexible multi purpose plant.