May 2025
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In April 2025, the Laboratory of Equipment Design was able to get accepted two contributions, which were submitted in March by invitation. Both contributions are dealing with results from the ENPRO projects and have the aim of energy-efficient chemical production processes and the acceleration of their development. In the paper “Process Design for Continuous Crystallization of L-Tryptophan in Water–Alcohol Solvent Mixtures” together with Lukas Hohmann and Robert Antpusat, solubility measurements and lab-scale crystallization experiments in both batch and continuous operation improved the process scalability and product yield. The just accepted contribution on “Energy and Resource Efficient Continuous Cooling Crystallization with Modular Lab-scale Equipment” together with Mira Schmalenberg, Benedikt Strakeljahn, and Kerstin Wohlgemuth describes four different small-scale modular apparatuses in continuously operated plants for current and future production processes in fine and specialty chemistry.