Process engineering advances in pharmaceutical and chemical industries: digital process design, advanced rectification, and continuous filtration

Publication date: Available online 9 April 2019Source: Current Opinion in Chemical EngineeringAuthor(s): Levente L Simon, Anton A Kiss, Jan Cornevin, Rafiqul GaniThis review paper presents some of the topics discussed at the 2018 ‘Chemical process development trends’ seminar organized by the Swiss Process and Chemical Engineers Society in Basel, Switzerland. The first subject covers the use of computer aided tools for systematic reaction route selection, the second one addresses the recent development in the field of process intensification with a focus on reactive distillation and dividing wall column technology, and the third topic highlights recent developments in the field of continuous filtration in the pharmaceutical industry.
Source: Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering - Category: Chemistry Source Type: research