10 Trends for the Process Industry You Should Know

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Process analysis technology: The PAT classic NIR has in the meantime become standard in chemicals — the NIR probe in the column sump of the distillation plant, for example.

But now PAT is successful under the heading knowledge-based production and is now set not only to bring light into events in the reactor, but also to help to operate plants “close to the wind”, i.e. optimised in terms of process technology and economics. It is furthermore a feature of genuinely forward-looking operation that data is analysed “hot from the process” and fed into a closed loop which in turn inputs into the process control system.

Process intensification: Experts can argue splendidly over whether process intensification is new or simply old wine in new skins. Whatever the case, the fact is that in recent years clever equipment has been developed for combining basic process operations such as, for example, mixing and separating. The best known is reactive distillation, which is generally categorised under process integration.

But process intensification is much more than hybrid machines: it is a matter of improving heat and material exchange, thus opening new process windows and developing e.g. nano-scale characteristics, as Volker Hessel, Director of IMM (Mainz) and team member on the Copiride project, explains.

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Process Industry Trends

10 Trends for the Process Industry You Should Know