PI in process development and production through micro process systems
Special Symposium - EPIC-1: European Process Intensification Conference - 1
EPIC-1: Intensified Hydrodynamics & Structured Environments (IHSE-1)
Keywords: process intensification, continuous process, process control system, automation, operation
The batch-to-conti-approach and its subset micro process technology are technologies with great potential for process intensification in development and production. Conventional continuous processes are established in large-scale production plants, because various advantages for application in chemical synthesis are well-known. Micro process technology provides chemists and chemical engineers new possibilities in mixing and heat-transfer, which in lab-scale have already partially brought to use by now. Still, process development for conti-processes - with or without micro structured components - has been considered to be complex in set-up and use. Therefore, the absolute number of conti-processes is limited to only few production plants. Micro process systems could bring up the use of continuous processing even to smaller production capacities. Siemens therefore designed Siprocess - an open, modular and automated micro process system for chemical syntheses in process development laboratories and for the production of first amounts of material.
Convincing features include modular set-up, the openness to integrate further devices e.g. special reactors, and integrated automation. Single modules can be exchanged easily and rapidly. Electronics are integrated in each module and are connected to the process control system Simatic PCS 7 (DCS) providing operating and configuration functions easily handled by the user – without special knowledge about automation. The benefit in using Siprocess is a remarkable reduction of process development time and a fast accessibility of initial material. .
In this presentation we focus on examples of reactions processed in this micro process system and the benefits for the users.
Presented Wednesday 19, 11:00 to 11:20, in session EPIC-1: Intensified Hydrodynamics & Structured Environments (IHSE-1).
