Design, construction and start-up of a versatile miniplant.
Successful scale-up of iridium-catalyzed hydroformylation for continuous operation.
Long-term experiments up to 100 h showed high long-term catalyst stability and activity.
Various substrates such as 1-octene and 1-pentene applied.
Highly efficient catalyst recycling via extraction with catalyst leaching of 0.1%/h.