ROBOT OFFERS WASHING/FILTRATION PARAMETER INSIGHT

摘要

The Falcon filtration robot assistant from Cambridge Reactor Design (www.cambridgereactordesign.com) collects all the data needed to deliver understanding of filtration and washing processes by combining machine vision with robotics. Isolation of solids is a major bottleneck in many production processes. However, the unit operations involved are not always thoroughly investigated during process development. The Falcon was designed in conjunction with scientists at GlaxoS-mithKline to automate the studies required to fully explore filtration and washing operations, offering both the capability and the capacity needed to deliver process understanding. Filtration studies can be performed to provide information on cake resistance, cake compressibility and liquor viscosity in order to optimise the isolation procedure, predict processing times on scale-up and aid equipment selection.