Archived: Solvents and Solvent Selection in Chemical Manufacturing
Date: 17 May - 19 May 2023
Location: Online Platform
Tutors: Dr Andrew Wells
This is a ONLINE short course which will look at reducing the burden of solvents, importance of solvent selection, and how to reduce solvent use and select solvents with a better safety and environmental profile.
May 17, 1.30 – 4.30 pm (UK) | Session 1
May 18, 1.30 – 4.30 (UK) | Session 2
(Optional 3rd Session)
May 19, 1.30 – 4.30 (UK) | Session 3
Looking at the process mass intensity (kg API/ kg materials used), solvents and process water are the biggest contributor to Process Mass Intensity (PMI). Due to their embedded resource utilisation, solvents are also of the biggest contributors to the cradle to gate life cycle impact of pharmaceutical agrochemical and fine chemical products. The advance of EU REACH (and similar environmental legislation in other territories) is also highlighting the undesirable human health and environmental issues with some solvents and solvent classes thus making the intelligent selection of solvents a paramount task for process chemists and engineers seeking to design the most sustainable manufacturing route, and to avoid future issues with chemicals that legislation seeks to reduce or remove entirely from use.
It is clear that solvents still challenge the industry and there is work to be done in identifying better, more sustainable solvents – especially to replace some ethers, dichloromethane and many of the dipolar aprotics, and adopt ways of working that reduce/optimise solvent use. This virtual course will explore some tools and current strategies for doing this. The following topics will be covered:
- Issues with solvents
- Trends in solvent use in the pharmaceutical industry
- Environmental legislation – Substances of very high concern (SVAC) list
- Resources for solvent selection – available guides and interpretation
- Uptake of new/ emerging solvents & solvent substitutions
- Solvent recovery/minimisation of solvent use
In addition to the presentation material, attendees will also get a list of DOI -linked literature references on solvent selection, recommended solvent/alternative solvents for a range of reaction classes, and key a selection of publications on emerging solvents.
Optional 3rd Session – Neoteric & Alternative Solvents – Wednesday May 19th | 1.30 – 4.30pm
- New molecular solvents
- Ionic liquids
- Deep eutectic mixtures
- Supercritical fluids/switchable solvents
- Chemistry in water
- Mechanochemistry
The application, uptake and pros and cons of each class will be discussed.
There is an additional cost of £299.00 + VAT for this session
Who should attend?
This online class will be of interest to anyone who are:
Medicinal chemists/ Process chemists in industry
Researchers in academia interested in moving to use greener solvents
Scientists working in EHS/sustainability in pharma/agrochem/fine chemicals manufacturing
What's included
- The course fee includes:
- Link to watch all five live sessions
- Electronic version of the course manual*
- Course certificate
For this online course, there will be no recordings available and *the e reader manual is NOT printable or downloadable (due to copyright). If you prefer a hard copy of the manual you will have the opportunity of purchasing a professionally printed hard copy during the booking process.
- Additional session is charged at £299.00 + VAT
Testimonials
Solvents Online Delegate 2022
The course was very interesting
Solvents On Line Delegate 2021
A very comprehensive course around industrial and lab-scale solvents and reaction media. Interesting and well explained. The english spoken is clear and easy to understand even for not well trained persons.
Solvents On Line Delegate 2021
Good insightful training