By using continuous flow-reactor, we are capable to scale up varieties of reaction smoothly and automatically. Parameters such as reaction time, temperature, flow, pumped volumes and pressure can all be rapidly varied. Scale-up issues are minimized due to maintaining excellent mixing and heat transfer. Higher flow rates and correspondingly larger reactors can be used to easily produce kilogram or tonne-scale quantities in that case. Flow chemistry process offers potential for the efficient manufacture of chemical products.
Moreover when reactions are run in continuous flow only small quantities of potentially hazardous materials are “in-process” or “in pipe-line” thanks to excellent heat transfer capability when compared with batch reactors. Flow chemistry reactor offers the chemist precise control of the five critical reaction parameters, which are stoichiometry, mixing, temperature, pressure and reaction time with a very low back-mixing.
