Process intensification is a concept that evolved in the process research/industry in the last few decades, to improve equipment design and process conditions to overcome limitations of heat and mass transfer evident in conventional stirred reactors. There have been a class of new reactor designs classified as “flow reactors” which have innovative reactor design. The designs offer an order of magnitude higher surface to volume ratios and intense interphase mass transfer area. With such reactors we can operate in the kinetic regime of the reactions. Plus, most of these reactors are flow/continuous operations.

 The continuous flow reactor allows for intense heat and mass transfer between multiple phases while offering limited back mixing of individual phases in the flow direction.  Once can develop differentiated technologies in any chemical area using PI concepts with several efficiency advantages. Few Industry important examples will be covered to explain use of these tools and how to structure future Technology developments in a timely manner.