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Chemical industries play a very important role in our life by contributing various products using every day such as healthcare products, detergents, cooking gas, fuel for vehicles, pharmaceuticals, paints and dyes, plastics, petrochemicals, synthetic fibres, water treatment chemicals, fertilisers for crops, insecticides, and pesticides—the list is very large—almost endless.
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Process flow diagram: Choose such designs and processes where flexibility to produce different products at different rates of production are possible by simple changes in process units or by adding some balancing equipments.
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Golwalkar, K.R. (2016). Introduction. In: Production Management of Chemical Industries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28253-4_1
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