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Toulouse, France
MEPI is promoting eco-friendly & cost competitive innovative processes enabling a short cut of traditional sourcing routes, and return of local manufactures.

Main directions
  • 1
    Optimization of production via eco-friendly products (using renewable ressources as often as possible)
  • 2
    Design of cleaner and safer processes, energy saving
  • 3
    Monitoring the quality of the chemical reaction with adequate in-line analytic tools
Achievements
  • Nitrations
  • Hydrazine synthesis
  • Biocatalysed reactions
  • Biocatalysed reactions
  • NaN3 chemistry
  • Amine deprotection
  • Effluent treatment
  • Polymerisations
Areas of interest
Improve yields / selectivity (e.g. enantiomers ratios)
Control strong exothermic reactions
Work in easier T° range (cryogenic reactions) or higher T° to speed up reaction (small residence time)
Dealing with hazardous chemicals
Fast heating or cooling down Reduction of reagent excess, diluted processes
Handling unstable intermediates
Кey parameters for equipment choice
  • Reaction kinetics:
    residence times up to 15 mn /up to 2 h => type of reactor
  • Heat generation & associated kinetics:
    type of reactor & heat exchange materials
  • Type of media:
    • Mono, bi, tri phasic
    • Gas /Liquid/ solid
    • Viscosity and evolution (pressure drop)
    • Type of high viscosity media (sticky, slurry)
  • Initial Reaction conditions:
    • Pressure
    • Temperature range
    • Gas generation
    • Solid generation
  • Chemical corrosion:
    type of reactor / auxiliairies material
  • Chemical stability:
    temperature range
  • Industrial production volume & productivity expectations
Lab
  • Batch
    • HPLC
    • GC
    • Gel Permeation Chromatography
    • pH
    • KF
    • Viscosimetry
    • Microscopy
  • On line / batch
    • FTIR
    • Raman
    • UV
  • Available
    • NMR
    • EM
    • MS
    • DFT
    • Ionic LC
Innovative technologies
  • Synthesis
    Micro, meso, super meso static mixers : HEX-plates & tubular reactors, Dymanic mixers: COBR, Spinning disc, Taylor Couette, Coflore Reactive extrusion.
  • Separation
    Thin film evaporator, centrifugator, membrane, continuous crystallization, sonocrystallization.
  • Alternative chemistry
    Sonochemistry, micro-waves, supercritical fluids, photochemistry, On line Spectroscopy (Raman, UV, IR).
  • Materials
    Glass, SiC, Hastelloy, stainless steel, titanium, polymers.
  • Media
    Mono, bi, tri-phasic ; liquid, gas, solid, High viscosity products , (solid/solid).
Reducing costs, optimizing processes and increasing efficiency
  • Oxidations in continuous (H2O2, NaOCl, KMnO4, HOF)
  • Enzyme catalysed continuous esterification
  • Continuous elemental fluorination of an API intermediate
  • Industrial production of a Di-Nitrated compound
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