Overall, a shorter residence me is desirable as this leads to higher produc vity. For rela vely slow reac ons, a higher overall residence me is required. This can be handled using a larger volume reactor or by spli ng the CSTR cascade into more stages, which can be used to maintain high throughput as the residence me in each individual stage is lower and overall flow rate higher. Using mul ple stages also allows the reac on to be run under different poten als at each individual stage in the cascade. Ul mately, we se led on a maximum of four CSTR stages which was a good compromise between throughput and complexity of the setup.