Overview of our approach:

• In broad terms we apply a simultaneous combination of innovative synthetic and physical chemistry with the discipline of reaction engineering.

• We combine this perspective with enabling technologies such as multivariate statistics and advanced data-processing methods to help quickly and comprehensively understand your process chemistry.

• We then apply this understanding in a quantitative way to optimise the reaction and its associated operating conditions.

• Reaction kinetics can be fitted automatically from a number of different types of measurements including composition, Qr, volume change and temperature either separately or using more than one data type. Many people working in process development view the determination of reaction kinetics for complex chemical systems as totally impractical. Using modern regression techniques coupled with a process simulator, this is no longer the case.

• Process models can often be developed in a few hours. We can then simulate a twenty-four hour batch synthesis in under a minute. This means we can quickly explore many possibilities for improving a process – reduced batch time, increased yields, better control, lower waste and emissions etc.

• As well as developing an accurate representation of the process chemistry, we can quickly prepare a detailed model of the reactor. This could be an existing laboratory, pilot or production facility, toll manufacturers' equipment or a new plant yet to be built. We may use a model from our extensive library of all the leading manufacturers' pilot and production vessels, or a special model prepared from engineering drawings and routine measurements.

• Using this combined approach, we can both address scale up problems such as exotherm, effective reactor utilisation, and simultaneously explore methods to improve yield and product quality.