Process intensification in the petrochemicals industry: Drivers and hurdles for commercial implementation
Authors:
Jan Harmsen
Affiliation:
Shell Global Solutions, Shell Technology Center Amsterdam, PO Box 38000, 1030 BN Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Abstract:
The process intensification technologies, reactive distillation, dividing wall column distillation (DWC) and reverse flow reactors (RFR) have been implemented at commercial scale in the petrochemical industry each more than 100 times.