Archive for the ‘Fermentation’ Category

Proving Brazilian Biofuel Processing Technologies

Posted in Alternative Energy, Fermentation on Friday, July 29th, 2011. No comments yet
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Douglas Morris from Emerson’s alternative energy industry team discusses biofuel investment by multinational companies in Brazil. Biofuels, whether you are talking about the traditional or advanced variety, is a favorite topic for debate in the United States. Most recently, legislators voted to remove some popular government subsidies for ethanol, but long-term loan guarantees and legislation [...]

Automating Fermentation and Paperless Operations

Posted in Fermentation, Life Sciences, Project Services on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007. No comments yet

At the recent Interphex Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Conference, Emerson’s Todd Ham presented on the subject of automating fermentation. Todd acknowledged that Christie Deitz, whom we’ve featured in several other posts, had a large hand in the development of this presentation and work on the project discussed. The presentation discussed a recent project done on a large-scale, [...]

Greg McMillan’s Thoughts on PAT and Advanced Control Technology

Posted in Control Strategies, Fermentation, Life Sciences on Thursday, April 19th, 2007. No comments yet

Recently I discovered in my PAT RSS persistent search feed an article in Pharmaceutical Processing magazine entitled, PAT Solutions-Eight advanced process control technologies worth considering. This article was written by Rick Rys, President, at R2 Controls, and Janice Abel, Director, Global Pharmaceutical and Biotech Industries, at Invensys. Since ModelingAndControl.com‘s Greg McMillan recently co-authored a book [...]

Virtual Experimentation Helps Implement Online Batch Analytics and MPC

Posted in Fermentation, Life Sciences, Process Optimization, Simulation on Wednesday, January 31st, 2007. No comments yet

Pharmaceutical Technology Europe has a recent article entitled, Artificial intelligence the key to process understanding. It discusses the opportunity to enhance the FDA’s Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) initiative using artificial intelligence based tools like neural networks, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms. I shared this article with Greg McMillan who has been quite immersed with advanced [...]