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Separation as the Focus of Process Development

kilomentor | 19 January, 2007 06:03

Based on an examination of what really goes on in a chemical process step a method of rating the difficulties of the separation are proposed as a quantitative tool to rank the challenges of a process scale up.

Nature to be commanded must be obeyed.

In synthesis we talk about assembling, building or constructing a molecular structure. In an important aspect this is a misleading metaphor because we are comparing an activity in the nano-world to an activity in the macro world. Operating in the macroscopic world, as for example in building a house, we handle the pieces, we position the pieces, we join the pieces.

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