PPT Slide
- Chemical manufacturers are concentrating on making high value added products via synthetic organic chemistry routes
- Most products are made in (relatively) small tonnages
- Much of the equipment is multi-purpose
- Most processes are batch or semi-batch in nature
- Most of the important reactions are exothermic
- Some have poor safety records (runaways)
- How can manufacturing be made more efficient?
- How can (hazard ? risk) be reduced?