Development of design methods and processes in pharmaceutical process engineering

A new subject area of the ITVP is the development of design methods and processes in pharmaceutical process engineering.

Growing economic pressure and increasing limitations in healthcare systems require far-reaching process improvements. The aim of the work is to develop new, efficient design methods, apparatus concepts and processes that allow new products to be produced as quickly as possible and to realize the potential for optimization in the production of synthetic and biotechnological pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals.

The field of interest is subdivided as follows:

1. systematic process synthesis, development, design and optimization of multi-step syntheses in fine chemical, pharmaceutical and agrochemical processes

2. process development for phytoextracts, plant-made pharmaceuticals and sun fuels

All necessary basic operations of thermal separation technology and downstream processing are to be modelled, model parameters determined experimentally and overall process simulations for process synthesis and process optimization developed. Existing industrial contacts/cooperations in various specialist areas enable interdisciplinary cooperation.

Contact person: M. Sc. Larissa Knierim