A new topic of the ITVP is the development of design methods and processes of pharmaceutical process technology.

Growing economic pressure and increasing limitations of healthcare systems require extensive process improvements. The aim of this work is the development of new efficient design methods, apparatus- and process concepts that allow new products to be produced quickly and to realize the optimization potentials in the production of synthetic and biotechnological pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals.

The field of interest is structured as follows:

1. Systematic process synthesis, -development, -design and -optimization of multi-step syntheses in the fine chemical-, pharmaceutical- and agro processes

2. Process development for phytoextracts, Plant Made Pharmaceuticals and Sun Fuels

All the necessary unit operations of the thermal separation technology and the downstream processing are to be modeled, model parameters experimentally determined and the overall process simulation for process synthesis and process optimization to be developed. Existing industrial contacts/collaborations in various fields allow for interdisciplinary cooperation.

Contact person: Dipl.-Ing. Simon Both