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Easier R&D Chemical Engineering & Scale-Up from SYSTAG
Time is always at a premium in the fast-paced world of chemical engineering R&D, with ever-greater pressures to get products ready faster for regulatory approval, into commercial production and to market.
Scale-up of reaction processes is a particular challenge, particularly where different laboratories and different production facilities are involved, raising risks that key data and recordings will be lost, slowing down development and regulatory processes.
SYSTAG’s continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR) and batch reactor control and automation systems are indispensable allies in this race against time, fundamentally reshaping the time-to-market landscape.
Solutions such as SYSTAG FlexyPlant and FlexySys seamlessly integrate pilot-scale reactors into established workflows so that chemical synthesis reactors become laboratory efficiency accelerators for kilo laboratory and minipilot set-ups, with end-to-end data chains.
This integration delivers accelerated development cycles, more robust processes and significant reductions in R&D lab costs.
The SYSTAG Flexy Concept
FlexyPlant is part of SYSTAG’s Flexy Concept suite of chemical synthesis reactor automation solutions that combine modular controlled reaction concepts with the flexibility of the FlexySys automated reactor control system to extend the FlexyCUBE and FlexyPAT mini-scale integrated automation of reactors upwards to production scale processes.
Whether on a milliliter, liter or kilogram scale, the FlexyConcept end-to-end automation concept enables chemists and engineers to seamlessly transfer formulations from the laboratory to the pilot plant.
SYSTAG’s innovative automated lab-scale reactor, batch reactors and pilot reactor control systems, eliminate time-consuming manual steps to achieve seamless chemical engineering optimization through centralized control and monitoring. These can automatically determine key process parameters, creating advanced and on-demand parallel reactor systems for chemical synthesis that use automation to optimize chemical reactions, shorten development times and minimize human error. From controlled laboratory chem reactors to scale-up laboratory reactors, SYSTAG’s comprehensive range effortlessly covers the most diverse requirements in research and development.
FlexyPlant
FlexyPlant is SYSTAG’s response to the particular demands imposed by kilo laboratory and pilot-scale reactors, where the quantities of materials used require the process management of a production operation, together with a comprehensive safety concept. Its flexible automation concept combines the development process from the lab scale reactor with a customized minipilot reactor within a unified automated chemistry platform, to make process transfer far more efficient and reproducible.
FlexyPlant provides customized design solutions for the complete automation of kilo lab plants with chemical reactor sizes up to 250 liters. These can be provided as design solutions, including functional control software specifications, user interface, control hardware, input/output lists and circuit diagrams.
Alternatively, FlexyPlant can be applied to a total turnkey production plant from SYSTAG, complete with reactors, sensors and fittings provided by Swiss partners Büchi.
FlexyPlant technology is also applicable to pharmaceutical pilot plants, special reactors and challenging chemical process technologies such as polymerizations, hydrogenations or thermal separation of substances.
FlexySys control
FlexyPlant operates as part of the FlexySys automation concept developed specifically for chemical process optimization and research.
The FlexySys process automated reactor control system combines the flexibility of manual operation with the safety, reliability and reproducibility of a recipe-controlled plant. It provides centralized control of all special apparatus, including rectification units, hydrogenation autoclaves, and polymerization plants.
FlexySys controlled lab reactor software provides an automation technology interface for any laboratory reactor employed in the chemical and synthetics sector. The software platform features an intuitive and user-friendly plant synoptic that includes predefined operating procedures for simple and safe operation. The ‘Ready, Steady, Go’ design philosophy emphasizes clear visualization of overall system status and operating parameters, along with editable online charts of reaction data and continuous automatic recording and documentation.
Resources
Click on FlexyPlant – Customised solutions for kilo lab automation to learn more.
Click on SYSTAG FlexyPlant Specific Customer Solutuons to download applications brochure.
Click on SYSTAG FlexySys to download product flyer.