Title:Recent Advances in Using Microwaves to Prepare Chemicals at the
Industrial Level
Volume: 11
Issue: 1
Author(s): Ricardo Cerón-Camacho*
Affiliation:
- CONACYT Researcher Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas Norte 152, Col. San Bartolo Atepehuacán,
CDMX, 07730, México
Keywords:
Microwave-assisted synthesis, microwave industrial reactor, scale-up, and Industrial microwave-assisted process.
Abstract: Microwave-assisted synthesis has faced challenges in implementing its use at the industrial
level in recent decades, including scaling up the processes. While microwave-assisted
synthesis is established on a laboratory scale, there are some drawbacks associated with it, including
the equipment and operational costs of the specialized microwave reactors, safety concerns
due to high temperatures and pressures, reaction selectivity, capacity to control the rapid
heating and cooling rates associated with the kinetics of some reactions, and optimization of reproducibility
in the results. This manuscript discusses the relevant and recent news in the last ten
years about the application of industrial reactors for producing chemicals at the industrial level.
