TY - CONF A1 - Maiwald, Michael T1 - Online NMR spectroscopy for process analytical applications and aspects on automation and digitization of process industry N2 - Chemical companies must find new paths to successfully survive in a changing environment. The potential of digital technologies belongs to these. Flexible and modular chemical plants can produce various high-quality products using multi-purpose equipment with short down-times between campaigns and reduce time to market for new products. Intensified continuous production plants allow for difficult to produce compounds. Therefore, fully automated “chemical” process control along with real-time quality control are prerequisites to such concepts while being based on “chemical” information. As an example, a fully automated NMR sensor is introduced, using a given pharmaceutical lithiation reaction as an example process within a modular pilot plant. Therefore, a commercially available benchtop NMR spectrometer was adapted to the full requirements of an automated chemical production environment such as, e.g., explosion safety, field communication, and robust evaluation of sensor data. It was thereof used for direct loop advanced process control and real-time optimization of the process. NMR appeared as preeminent online analytical tool and allowed using a modular data analysis tool, which even served as reliable reference method for further PAT applications. A full integration and intelligent interconnection of such systems and processes progresses only hesitantly. The talk should encourage to re-think digitization of process industry based on smart sensors, actuators, and communication more comprehensively and informs about current technical perspectives such as the “one-network paradigm”, edge computing, or virtual machines. These give smart sensors, actuators, and communication a new perspective. T2 - Advances in Process Analytics and Control Technology 2019 Conference (APACT) CY - Chester, United Kingdom DA - 30.04.2019 KW - Process Analytical Technology KW - Reaction Monitoring KW - Online NMR Spectroscopy KW - Process Industry KW - Distributed Networks KW - Digital Twin PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-47907 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -