Conventional reactors for homogeneous catalytic processes: From laboratory to industrial scale

Zusammenfassung

Chemical reactors are at the heart of chemical processes in their broad sense (chemical, pharmaceutical, food, biotechnological, environmental industries) as they play an important role in the generation of products of high commercial value, elimination of pollutants, or simply carrying out necessary transformations within the various industrial processes. Chemical reactions can be carried out as homogeneous reactions where there is only one single phase or heterogeneous reactions where at least two phases are involved. Regardless of the advantages that heterogeneous reactions can offer, which are not few. Homogeneous reactions carried out in homogeneous catalytic reactors are still the most widely used because they are more efficient from the point of view of the yields achieved, since current knowledge allows separation operations to be carried out that allow the separation of the catalysts and at a low cost in most cases. This book chapter tries to shed some light on the importance of conventional reactors in the development of homogeneous catalytic reactions.