TY - CONF A1 - Meyer, Klas A1 - Kern, S. A1 - Guhl, Svetlana A1 - Bornemann-Pfeiffer, Martin A1 - Wander, Lukas A1 - Maiwald, Michael T1 - Compact NMR Spectroscopy in the field: A Versatile Tool for Automated Continuous-Flow Production 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 downtimes 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 and thus should be based on “chemical” information. A commercially available benchtop NMR spectrometer was integrated 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. Field studies in modular and conventional production plant setups show promising results gaining process knowledge for further optimization. NMR appeared as preeminent online analytical method and allow using a modular data analysis tool, which even served as reliable reference method for further PAT applications (e.g. NIR spectroscopy). In the future, such fully integrated and intelligently interconnecting “smart” systems and processes can speed up the high-quality production of specialty chemicals and pharmaceuticals. T2 - DECHEMA Workshop "Sensorik für die Digitalisierung chemischer Produktionsanlagen" CY - Frankfurt am Main, Germany DA - 13.06.2022 KW - Compact NMR KW - Process Control KW - Modular Production KW - Process Analytical Technology PY - 2022 AN - OPUS4-55037 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Meyer, Klas A1 - Kern, Simon A1 - Guhl, Svetlana A1 - Wander, Lukas A1 - Paul, Andrea A1 - Maiwald, Michael T1 - Already Producing or Still Calibrating? – Advances of Model-Based Automation for Online NMR Spectroscopy N2 - The transition from the current automation landscape to next generation automation concepts for the process industry has already begun. Smart functions of sensors simplify their use and enable plug-and-play integration, even though they may appear to be more complex at first sight. Monitoring specific information (i.e., “chemical” such as physico-chemical properties, chemical reactions, etc.) is the key to “chemical” process control. Here we introduce our smart online NMR sensor module provided in an explosion proof housing as example. Due to NMR spectroscopy as an “absolute comparison method”, independent of the matrix, it runs with very short set-up times in combination with “modular” spectral models. These are based on pure component NMR spectra without the need for tedious calibrations runs. We present approaches from statistical, (i.e., Partial Least Squares Regression) to physically motivated models (i.e., Indirect Hard Modelling). Based on concentration measurements of reagents and products by the NMR analyser a continuous production and direct loop process control were successfully realized for several validation runs in a modular industrial pilot plant and compared to conventional analytical methods (HPLC, near infrared spectroscopy). The NMR analyser was developed for an intensified industrial process funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (“Integrated CONtrol and SENsing”, www.consens-spire.eu). T2 - 2nd Reaction Monitoring Symposium CY - Bath, UK DA - 28.01.2019 KW - Process Analytical Technology KW - NMR Spectroscopy KW - Modular Production PY - 2019 AN - OPUS4-47309 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -