8. Glossary

Multifunctionality; multifunctionnality

The principle of combining more than one function in a single piece of equipment: mixing and separation; reaction and separation; reaction and heat exchange...

Hybrid process; hybrid process

Process involving the coupling of several operations to achieve a single function: coupling of distillation and membrane separation; coupling of filtration and adsorption ...

Microfluidics; microfluidics

The set of tools based on the manipulation and circulation of fluids in channels on a sub-millimeter scale (a few hundred micrometers) to acquire basic data on the chemical transformation or on the predominant phenomena involved in the process.

Parallelization; numbering-up

Scalability principle...