Abstract
Since the author proposed the concept of a miniaturised plant in 1993 [1] a number of developments have taken place in terms of both experimental evaluation and concepts.
We briefly review the original idea of the miniature plant, and discuss how ideas on the miniaturisation of one candidate process, hydrogen cyanide, have developed.
A somewhat different concept, that of the disposable miniature batch plant is also discussed, and finally a hypothetical semibatch process for the manufacture of hydrogen fluoride is described.
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RS Benson and JW Ponton, Process Miniaturisation -a Route to Total Environmental Acceptability?, ChERD71, A2, 160–168, 1993
Aq. HF, JW Ponton, The Disposable Batch Plant, paper 107d, AIChE National Spring meeting, New Orleans, 1996
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JW Ponton, Some Thoughts on the Batch Plant of the Future, paper 52e, ibid
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Ponton, J.W. (1998). Observations on Hypothetical Miniaturised, Disposable Chemical Plant. In: Ehrfeld, W. (eds) Microreaction Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72076-5_2
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