Computer vision for kinetic analysis of lab- and process-scale mixing phenomena

Henry Barrington, Alan Dickinson, Jake McGuire, Chunhui Yan, Marc Reid

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Abstract

A software platform for the computer vision-enabled analysis of mixing phenomena of relevance to process scale-up is described. By bringing new and known time-resolved mixing metrics under one platform, hitherto unavailable comparisons of pixel-derived mixing metrics are exemplified across non-chemical and chemical processes. The analytical methods described are applicable using any camera and across an appreciable range of reactor scales, from development through to process scale-up. A case study in nucleophilic aromatic substitution run on a 5 L scale in a stirred tank reactor shows how camera and offline concentration analyses can be correlated. In some cases, it can be shown that camera data hold the power to predict reaction progress.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3073-3088
Number of pages16
JournalOrganic Process Research and Development
Volume26
Issue number11
Early online date4 Nov 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Nov 2022

Keywords

  • mixing
  • computer vision
  • kinetics
  • imaging

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