AutoPlant

AutoPlant fully automated workstation for:

• Process research
• Semi-preparative synthesis
• Formulation

• Single platform technology for substance handling, synthesis, process research and development, and formulation
• Up to 20 MiniPlants (40 individually controlled reactors) integrated in the Accelerator platform for maximized output with the full automation of the complete workflow
• Truly downscaled heating / cooling, stirring, and feeding for kinetically controlled operation
• Any type of operation mode: batch, semi-continuous, continuous, continuous cascade,…
• Flexible robotic platform with automated tool exchange:
  • Overhead powder weighing and dispensing for the addition of solid reagents, catalysts,…
  • Overhead liquid dispensing and sampling
  • High-shear homogenizing for dispersing, emulsifying, suspending (formulation of polymers, paints,…)
  • Automated capping/crimping of vials
• Integration with different inline (in situ) real-time analytics such as temperature, IR, Raman, turbidity, particle size, pH
• Calorimetric and viscosity data
• pH measurement and control
• Integration with online and offline analytics (GC, HPLC, GPC, NMR, MALDI-TOF, AFM)
• Vacuum supply for inertization, evaporation
• Hood for second inert atmosphere
• Crystallization, extraction, filtration, evaporation, distillation (incl. Dean-Stark azeotropic distillation)
• Software:
  • Configuration of experimental set-up
  • Design of recipe with result/event-oriented process control
  • Simulation of application
  • Execution of application
  • Real-time visualization of all process parameters
  • Manual control
  • Data and event logging
  • Data and event processing (SQL database, Web server)
  • Application Programming Interface (API) for the customized integration with third party software, e.g., DoE software and with applied informatics for complete workflow

Up to 40 simultaneous reactions featuring the full automation of complete workflows, incl. substance handling, reaction, inline / online / offline analytics, evaporation, distillation, extraction, filtration, and crystallization, for a tremendous increase in output and reproducibility.