Digital design of chemical processes

This talk will look at why digital strategies are needed to help businesses adapt to changing challenges, how to define the needs of the company and build a digital roadmap. The content will highlight some of the challenges in managing transformation and show typical digital architecture. It will give an example of a digital project for a flexible multiproduct processing line. Finally, there will be an overview of how the design of plant and process data can be combined to produce a Digital Twin.

The development of new chemical processes for active pharmaceutical ingredients often relies heavily on experimental work to refine the manufacturing route. However, digital workflows are increasingly being used within the pharmaceutical industry to identify chemical routes, select the best reagents and understand how to control the final product quality. The ultimate goal of these workflows is a ‘digital twin’ of the manufacturing process that is capable of running thousands of experiments at the touch of a button, fully describing the system and what’s going to happen at scale. This talk will examine the benefits of using digital workflows in chemical process development, how they are currently being applied and what the future state could look like.