A lot of research has been done on micro reaction technology. Some companies have started to use this technology on production scale level. Two applications with throughputs higher than one ton per hour have been started up recently. Several other applications with smaller amounts have implemented. The examples have proofed technical feasibility. Some of the success stories have been published resently. The next step is to evaluate the economic impact.

 

Micro reaction technology is not automatically an economic push. This shows the first known production scale example of micro reaction technology. One of the eighteen steps have been successfully carried out in a micro reactor. This technical successful implementation do not turn the product into an economical product. The product was shut down several years later.

 

Now first results from production scale implementations can be presented. The economic impact of two main aims: energy savings and debottlenecking of a production application will be demonstrated.