Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Blog

Whether you are a chemist, chemical engineer, QA or safety specialist, your aims when scaling up your process are often the same:

• Achieving greater process efficiency, yield and throughput.
• Eliminating unsafe and non-green processes and materials.
• Decreasing the costs and number of steps involved.

Since the first conference in 1994, The Scale-Up of Chemical Processes has become the major international forum for the discussion of all these aspects of scale-up and more in the pharmaceutical, fine chemical and allied fields.

Key speakers presenting case studies and examples of some of the pitfalls and problems they encountered and how they overcame them. With unparalleled networking opportunities, this broad-based conference is the best place to learn about and discuss the latest novel ideas and techniques with the key people in the industry.

This year, the conference takes place in Rochester, NY from 21-23 June and includes speakers such as:

• Jim Bruno, (Chemical & Pharmaceutical Solutions, USA)
• Wim Dermaut, (Agfa Materials, Belgium)
• Emma McInturff, (Pfizer, USA)
• Vincent Ferey, (Sanofi, France)
• John W. Harder, (Kodak, USA)
• Sebastian Härtner, (EMD Performance Materials, Germany)

View the full programme here and visit their website to find out more and register for the event.

The RSC Special Chemicals Sector, in association with The Knowledge Transfer Network, is pleased to announce the 2017 International Symposium on Continuous Flow Chemistry for Industrial Processes, which will be held in conjunction with Chemspec Europe 2017.

This international symposium, held over two days at the Munich Trade Fair Centre, will highlight recent developments focused on the growth of continuous processes in the fine chemicals and pharmaceutical industries. The programme includes internationally acclaimed speakers, mostly from industry, and from companies making pioneering advances in the technology.

Confirmed speakers:

• Charlotte Wiles, (Chemtrix, The Netherlands)
• Andrea Adamo, (Zaiput Flow Technologies, USA)
• Chris Price, (University of Strathclyde, UK)
• Dirk Kirschneck, (Microinnova Engineering, Austria)
• Eric Beausoleil, (SiliCycle Inc, France)
• André de Vries, (Innosyn, The Netherlands)
• Sarah Hunter, (GSK, UK)
• Karim Engelmark Cassimjee, (EnginZyme, Sweden)
• Christian Hornung, (CSIRO, Australia)
• Zoel Codolà, (Medichem, Spain)

This event is free to attend – if you are interested in attending, please contact Pat Keen and visit the RSC Special Chemicals Sector webpage for more details.

The upcoming Faraday Discussion meeting on Bio-Resources: Feeding a Sustainable Chemical Industry will be held in London, UK on 19–21 June 2017.

This Faraday Discussion aims to address some of the critical issues in bio-resources, with themes on bio-based materials, bio-based chemicals, conversion technologies and feedstocks and analysis, by bringing together experts in different but complementary areas in the chemical sciences.

Faraday Discussions have a special format where research papers written by the speakers are distributed to all participants before the meeting, and most of the meeting is devoted to discussing the papers. Everyone contributes to the discussion – including presenting their own slide if it aids discussion. The discussion is recorded and will be published alongside the research papers in the Faraday Discussion Volume. Find out more about Faraday Discussions on the FAQs page.

Confirmed speakers:

• Bruce Dale (Michigan State University, USA)
• Andrzej Stankiewicz (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
• George Huber (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
• Mark Mascal (University of California, Davis, USA)
• Avtar Matharu (University of York, UK)
• Xindong Mu (QIBEBT, China)
• Gadi Rothenberg (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Keith Waldron (Institute of Food Research, UK)
• Vania Zuin (Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil)

Poster submission deadline is 10 April – find out more about how to submit and register for the event here.

We are pleased to announce the 4^th Implementation of Microreactor Technology in Biotechnology conference, which will take place in Bled, Slovenia, from 23-26 April 2017.

The IMTB conference, which is a collaborative series between research groups from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and the University of Zagreb, Croatia, aims to provide a platform for people from industry and academia, working in the cross-section of microfluidics, life sciences, analytics and bioprocess engineering.

Invited prominent speakers from leading research institutions and industry, together with participants of various backgrounds including chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering, medicine, pharmacy, chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology and biotechnology, will present their recent achievements in the fields of enzymatic microreactors, cells within microdevices, analytical microdevices and bioprocess intensification and integration within microdevices. Abstract submission prizes, as well as oral and poster prizes supported by Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, will also be presented.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Takehiko Kitamori, (University of Tokyo, Japan)
• Marko Mihovilovic, (Technical University Wien, Austria)
• Florian Hollfelder, (University of Cambridge, UK)
• Michal Přibyl, (University of Chemistry and Technology, Czech Republic)
• Jennifer Littlechild, (University of Exeter, UK)
• Jochen Büchs, (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
• Manabu Tokeshi, (Hokkaido University, Japan)
• Brian Paul, (Oregon State University and Microproducts Breakthrough Institute, USA)

Visit the IMTB website now for more information on how to register and the full programme.