PILLS: Process Intensification methodologies applied to Liquid-Liquid Systems in structured equipment

• Budget: €5.5m (€3.6m EU)
• Project coordination by Chemistry Innovation
• Follows on from the FP6 project IMPULSE
• Develop new methodologies and the next generation of processing equipment appropriate to liquid-liquid reaction systems
• Exemplification
• Commodity chemicals, Fine/speciality chemicals

Project to run over 3 years, starting late 2008

10 Partners: UK –CI and Britest / Belgium –Huntsman /Portugal –CUF, Fluidinova, University of Coimbra / Switzerland –EPFL, Givaudan / Germany –IMM / Poland –University of Warsaw

COPIRIDE: COmbining Process Intensification-driven Manufacture of Microstructured Reactors and Process Design regarding to Industrial Dimensions and Environment

• Budget: €11m
• Develop new technologies, processes and manufacturing concepts for the “plant of the future” for the Chemical Industry.

Project to run over 42 months, starting September 2009

16 Partners: Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH,(Germany), Evonik Degussa GmbH (Germany), Microinnova Engineering GmbH (Austria), Chemtex Italia srl (Italy), Wetzel GmbH (Germany), Laserzentrum Schorcht GmbH (Germany), Mythen S.p.A. (Italy), ITI Energy Limited (United Kingdom), Dipartimento di Chimica dell’Università degli studi di Napoli (Italy), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Germany), Newcastle University (United Kingdom), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland), Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Netherlands), Åbo Akademi University (Finland), Universität Stuttgart (Germany)

F3 Factory: Future Fast Flexible Factory

• Budget: € 30m (€18m funded by EU)
• Novel effects in the nano- micro- and macroscopic scale allow high process efficiency through intensification, e.g. µ-technology, batch-to-continuous, …
• Modular plant design flexibility for product development as well as for capacity switches according to product life-cycles, e.g. modular tool box
• Easy and fast scale-up methodology for dedicated continuous production lines for the enhancement of time-to-availability, low inventories, plant agility

Project to run over 4 years, starting mid 2009

25 Partners: Arkema, AstraZeneca, BASF, Bayer Technology Services (coordination), Britest, Buss-SMS-Canzler, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS, Coatex, Technical University of Denmark, Ehrfeld Mikrotechnik BTS, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine - ENSIC, Evonik Degussa, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Institute of Catalysis & Surface Chemistry PAS, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Process Design Center Rhodia, RWTH Aachen University, Technische Universität Dortmund, Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Newcastle, University of Paderborn, Procter & Gamble, Ruhr-University Bochum.

POLYCAT: POLYmerization by single-site metal CATalysis

• Budget: € 5,5m
• Modern polymer-based catalysts and microflow conditions as key elements of innovations in fine chemical synthesis.

Project to run over 42 months, starting mid 2010

8 Partners: Istituto di Chimica dei Composti OrganoMetallici ICCOM, Firenze-Italy / UMR 6509 CNRS- Rennes 1, Organometalliques et Catalyse / CERM - Institut de Chimie, Liège- Belgium / Institut für Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie, Hamburg-Germany / Instituto de Investigaciones Quimicas, Sevilla –Spain / Debye Institute, Department of Metal-Mediated Synthesis, Utrecht -The Netherlands / Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, UK/ Waste Recycling Laboratories, Pisa-Italy