- Capability group
- Advanced Materials & Manufacturing
- Domain
- Critical Technology · Hard Power
- Identifier
- factbase.org/cap/X1ETSGZE1C
- Reference
- Flow chemistry Wikipedia
Papers
2.1k
2020–2024
Paper growth
+18%
2020–24 on 2015–19
Patent families
13.4k
2020–2024
Filed abroad
28%
families in more than one office
In the framework
What the capability covers and what it leaves to others, and the indicators it will be measured by.
Bounds
Covers process technology; chemical plants belong to Strategic Infrastructure, and pharmaceutical production technology is shared with Biomanufacturing, classified by what is being made.
Lineage
Carried from v0.0 (formerly Continuous flow chemical synthesis) with the same identifier; broadened from a single technique to the process-manufacturing capacity the technique exemplifies.
Indicators
- research publication share in process chemistryResearch
- speciality chemicals outputPending
- process technology licensingPending
Research
Papers classified to the capability, by year and by the nation of their authors' institutions, 2020–2024. Read from the v0.0 research topic Continuous flow chemical synthesis.
Papers by year
The five leading nations, papers by year
Share of papers, 2020–2024
Of papers with a known author nation; 26% have none and are left out.
- 1China18.7%374 papers
- 2United States10.1%202 papers
- 3United Kingdom8.4%168 papers
- 4Germany7.4%149 papers
- 5Japan5.4%108 papers
- 6Italy4.0%80 papers
- 7France3.5%70 papers
- 8India3.4%69 papers
- 9Netherlands2.6%52 papers
- 10South Korea2.5%51 papers
Leading institutions, 2020–2024
By fractional count: each paper divided among its authors' institutions.
- 1Tsinghua University18fractional papers
- 2State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering18fractional papers
- 3The University of Tokyo17fractional papers
- 4East China University of Science and Technology15fractional papers
- 5Zhejiang University of Technology14fractional papers
- 6Shanghai Jiao Tong University12fractional papers
- 7Eindhoven University of Technology12fractional papers
- 8University of Leeds9fractional papers
- 9Massachusetts Institute of Technology9fractional papers
- 10Fudan University9fractional papers
Patents
Patent families by the nation of origin of their applicants and their earliest priority year, from the CPC and IPC classes the capability is read from. Read as tools for the field: the classes count inventions used in it rather than the field itself. 2025 onwards is incomplete: families are published 18 months after priority.
Families by priority year
The five leading origins, families by year
5,805 applicants filed here in 2015–2024; the five largest held 5% of families (HHI 19 of 10,000: unconcentrated).
Share of families by origin, 2020–2024
- 1China66.1%8,858 families
- 2United States8.0%1,076 families
- 3South Korea6.4%860 families
- 4Japan3.7%490 families
- 5Germany3.4%456 families
- 6France2.2%295 families
- 7United Kingdom1.1%152 families
- 8Netherlands1.0%135 families
- 9Saudi Arabia1.0%135 families
- 10Canada0.7%99 families
Applicants filing most internationally, 2015–2024
Families filed in more than one office, by applicant as the offices name them.
- 1SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES BV158international families
- 2UOP LLC150international families
- 3BASF SE147international families
- 4SAUDI ARABIAN OIL CO144international families
- 5AIR LIQUIDE131international families
- 6HALDOR TOPSOE AS128international families
- 7IFP ENERGIES NOW128international families
- 8ARAMCO SERVICES CO109international families
- 9LG CHEMICAL LTD107international families
- 10CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEM CORP99international families
Classification read
- B01J19/0093 Microreactors · 22k documents
- B01J2219/00781 Microreactor design aspects · 89.8k documents
- B01J19/24 Fixed flow reactors without moving parts · 82.4k documents
- B01J8/00 Fluid-solid reactors: fixed and fluidised beds · 322.1k documents
- B01J10/00 Gas-liquid reaction processes and apparatus · 12.5k documents
- B01J12/00 Gas-gas reaction processes and apparatus · 12.3k documents
- B01J14/00 Liquid-liquid reaction processes and apparatus · 4.5k documents
Shares inventions with
Capabilities whose classes the same families also fall in, by overlap (Jaccard).
- Hydrogen, Ammonia & Sustainable Fuels1,665 families · 0.038
Companies
50 companies in this capability, across 8 regions. The leading 12:
- 1BASFWorld's largest chemical producer, running integrated Verbund sites and a large process-development and catalyst business that is among the top international patent applicants in process chemistry.Manufacture
- 2HoneywellIts subsidiary UOP is the leading licensor of refining and petrochemical process technology (Platforming, Oleflex, aromatics) along with catalysts and adsorbents, and is the second-largest patent applicant in this field.Software & services
- 3TopsoeLeading licensor of catalysts and process technology for ammonia, methanol, hydrogen and SOEC electrolysis-based e-fuels.Software & services
- 4SABICMajor petrochemicals producer (70% owned by Saudi Aramco) and the largest international patent applicant in this capability through SABIC Global Technologies, working on crude-to-chemicals and electrified cracking.Manufacture
- 5Air LiquideIndustrial-gas leader whose Engineering & Construction arm licenses syngas, hydrogen, methanol (Lurgi) and air-separation process technology.Equipment & materials
- 6LindeLinde Engineering designs and builds olefin, hydrogen, syngas and air-separation plants using its own process technology, and supplies key cryogenic equipment.Integration
- 7DowGlobal materials-science producer that develops and licenses process technology (UNIPOL polypropylene, the Fluidized Catalytic Dehydrogenation process) and is a leader in process intensification.Manufacture
- 8ExxonMobilExxonMobil Chemical runs among the world's largest steam crackers, including the first commercial crude-oil-to-chemicals cracking in Singapore, and licenses catalysts and process technology.Manufacture
- 9SinopecChina's largest refining and petrochemicals group, whose research institutes (RIPP, SRIBPC) develop and license its own cracking, aromatics and catalyst process technology.Manufacture
- 10IFP Energies nouvelles (Axens)Public research body whose subsidiary Axens licenses refining, petrochemical and biofuel process technology; it is a top-10 patent applicant in this capability.Research
- 11Lummus TechnologyLeading licensor of ethylene cracking, propane dehydrogenation (CATOFIN) and polymer process technologies, owned by Haldia Petrochemicals and Rhône Group.Software & services
- 12LG ChemKorea's largest chemical maker and a top-10 international patent applicant in process chemistry, covering petrochemicals and advanced materials.Manufacture