The SSPC Process Engineering Knowledge Day held on Wednesday, October 23rd, hosted by Boston Scientific, Cork, featuring an exciting mix of talks from our industry partners, Anthony Hannan, Operations Manager, Boston Scientific and Gearóid Markey, Senior Process Development Engineer, Selio Medical. A new Horizon for Intradermal Drug Delivery with Dr Waleed Faisel of Array Patch and academic presentations with Prof. Abina Crean, University College Cork (UCC) and Prof. Vivek, Ranade, University of Limerick (UL).
The presentations touched on different aspects of Process Engineering such as Continuous Manufacturing, Process Intensification, Process Modelling and PAT Technologies. A big thank you to our hosts Boston Scientific, Cork, in particular, Phil Dorgan, Joe Devlin, Conor O’Sullivan, and Gary Bell.
Also, our Thesis in 3 Minutes and presentations by our SSPC Early Career Researchers:
Milton Assuncao, UL, Using gravity to control drug polymorphism in batch crystallization
Nancy Moore, UCC, Point of Care Manufacture: Analytical Approaches to Assuring Product Quality
Aaron McCormack, University of Galway, New applications of carbohydrates as chiral auxiliaries and novel compound generation via stereoselective azide-alkene cycloaddition, batch vs flow chemistry
Ahmed Metawea, UL, Investigation of the capability of continuous Manufacturing techniques for the synthesis of metal organic framework (MOF)
Saikat Bhowmick, UL, Experimental Study of Liquid Velocity Characteristics at the Wall Layer of the Limerick Bubble Rig
Githin Zachariah, UL, Embedding DNS periodic boxes in Large Eddy Simulations Rese
Nethraa Kannan, University College Dublin (UCD), Beyond First-Principles: Harnessing Time-Series Data for Improved Process Modelling and Control
Vaishnavi Honovar, UL, Continuous Anti-solvent Crystallization with a crystallizer without moving parts
Laura Foley, UL, Investigating the effects of spray dryer process parameters on the physiochemical properties of pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals
Innovative process engineering makes manufacturing cost-effective, sustainable and responsive. SSPC teams work to develop fundamental scientific understanding underpinning process engineering applications to enable advances beyond the current state of the art.
Our key research focus is on process intensification and continuous manufacturing, including the development of modular manufacturing platforms. The advances in these areas are facilitated by multi-scale modelling of multiphase flows, materials and processes. Part 1 of our spotlight on process engineering shares some exciting recent breakthroughs.
Link to SSPC Process Engineering Spotlight: https://sspc.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Process-Eng.-Spotlight.pdf
