Towards Innovative Chemical Production

The vision of IMPULSE is "to match process systems to the needs of the process, commerce and society – precision processing” in order to

• enable new business models and enhanced sustainability through more efficient, inherently safer processing, distributed manufacture etc.
• achieve step changes in manufacturing capability by exploiting micro- and meso-structured components, control and instrumentation techniques
• deliver [potentially more extreme] conditions very precisely to open opportunities for the delivery of new, previously inaccessible high value products
• develop and transfer new “multiscale” approaches to process development and design to enable technologists to deliver the benefits

IMPULSE is Europe’s flagship R&D initiative for radical innovation in chemical production technologies.

Created in the framework of the SUSTECH program of CEFIC, the European Chemical Industry Council, IMPULSE is a specifically targeted program aimed at creating a totally new strategy for the design and operation of production systems for the chemical (and related) process industries. In this connection, IMPULSE responds to the desire of CEFIC and the European chemical industry to contribute to a knowledge-based manufacturing industry, capable of maintaining substantial production capacity (and highly qualified employment) in Europe.

IMPULSE builds on existing European leadership in the areas of process intensification, process design, process miniaturization and microreaction technology to develop a new approach to competitive and eco-efficient chemicals production: structured multiscale design.