Specialty chemicals technology simulation

Industries that we describe as "specialty chemicals market" are for example:

• Pharmaceutical industry
• Custom manufacturers producing multiple chemical product on demand, in batch mode
• Makers of agricultural (plant protection) chemicals making their products batchwise
• Companies processing minerals to get high quality products such as silicon
• Any process industry where the production scale is small leading to expensive end-products
• Any process industry using batch reactors
• Any multipurpose, multiproduct plant

The uniqueness of the needs of the specialty chemical makers results from:

• Widespread use of batch or semi-batch processes
• Batch and semi-batch chemical reactors are commonly used
•  The chemistry is complex, requiring laboratory experiments good knowledge of reaction modelling
• Often, physical properties of media used in the processes are not available
• The same equipment (in different configurations) is used to make different products, and the time for starting making a new product is typically short
• The products are often made according to recipes
• Typical problem is bottle-necking in the production due to inadequate schedule
• Another typical problem is scaling-up of the production from laboratory scale to the production scale.

Solutions

Nor-Par offers software and solutions for the specialty chemicals market. We also offer tailor made software to meet your specific needs. We have reference clients, please ask.

CHEMCAD/CC-DYNAMICS allow you:

• Predicting physical properties of substances based on minimum available data
• Chemical reaction studies including fitting of kinetic expression coefficients to the laboratory experimental data
• CC-DYNAMICS includes interface to Mettler-Toledo RC1 reaction calorimeter
• Scale-up of laboratory and small scale experiments to the industrial production scale
• Detailed technical analysis of performance of vessel reactors in batch, semi-batch and continuous mode
• Batch and semi batch distillation including reactive, azeotropic and extractive distillation
• Interaction with control systems
• Safety studies, including design and rating of pressure relief devices (DIERS technology)
• Handling of solids as well as solid-fluid separation
• Detailed technical analysis of operation of batch or semi-batch plant in combination with continuous processes

SIMBAX allows you:

• Detailed material flow analysis in time (production logistics)
• Finding optimum schedule for single product multipurpose plant and for multiple product multipurpose plant
• Optimum selection of equipment to make desired product
• Identification and elimination of production bottlenecks

Together, CHEMCAD/CC-DYNAMICS and SIMBAX form powerful suite of programs for specialty chemical manufacturer.

Read the paper on CHEMCAD/CC-DYNAMICS + SIMBAX suite of programs