Increasingly shorter product life cycles and the need for small customized product quantities require plant and process innovations. Plants with high flexibility and low production capacities meet this need and are therefore in the focus of current research. The devices and plants with low production quantities should, if possible, also meet the requirements of large-scale production. This allows piloting in small-scale plants and stable scale-up if higher production quantities are required. Continuous processes and safety issues play a major role here. Aspects of small-scale, safe and flexible equipment with continuous operation are therefore fundamental requirements in apparatus development.

The aim of this research is the development of a novel apparatus concept, which combines different functional steps of an entire production process...