Flow Chemistry Is an Integral Part of the Various End-User Industries

 

Flow chemistry involves the running of a chemical reaction in a flowing stream instead of batches. The process uses a pump to initiate the movement of fluid into a tube. Flow chemistry enables cheaper, efficient, cleaner, and safer chemical processes. It helps enhance safety and reaction time and also offer multi-step synthesis. It is a well-established, highly efficient, and economic technique used for large-scale operations, such as the manufacture of large quantities of a given substance.

 


Flow chemistry is widely adopted across various end-user industries such as petrochemicals, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals. Flow chemistry is beneficial for reactions that cannot be performed in a batch reactor. The pharmaceutical industry is highly dependent on the continuous flow process using a wide variety of reactors. Moreover, it is considered the most accurate and beneficial technique for drug discovery. Thus, the demand for flow chemistry is increasing with an increasing number of applications.

The Virtual Italian Flow Chemistry Symposium took place in November 2020 in Rome, Italy. In this event, leading experts showcased how flow chemistry and related technologies (such as electrochemistry, biocatalysis, PATs, photochemistry, computing, automation,) impact process development, drug discovery research, and chemical sciences. However, the global pandemic (COVID-19) has affected one of the most important industry, the chemicals Industry.

Due to low demand from end-use industries, such as automobile, construction, food processing, electronics, consumer durables, agriculture, coatings, etc., the production of bulk chemicals has declined worldwide. Flow chemistry offers a wide variety of applications, including pre-treating grain and plant material for fertilizers, as well as the separation of solids from the liquid during the mining and milling process. Moreover, it can be used for batch control, lagoon drag, separation of solids from bulk materials, and much more. Another reason this technology is becoming so popular is that it is easy to use, requiring minimal manual labor in processing areas where efficiency is important.

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