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Align business benefits with technical alternatives, handle uncertainty and mitigate scale-up risk
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Generating value from process understanding
Britest champions effective whole process design throughout the chemical, biochemical and related process industries.
Our specialist technical facilitators help multidisciplinary development and manufacturing teams within companies, across supply chains, and in collaborative projects turn their working knowledge into impactful process understanding capable of driving innovation. Visually rich information capture and structuring tools enable our clients to assimilate and communicate insight critical to product and process development, successful problem solving and process improvement. The Britest approach has successfully delivered innovative solutions to key process and manufacturing challenges since 2001.
LATEST UPDATES
Building a Britest toolkit for Sustainable Innovation report available now
Britest's latest white paper describes the alignment of some current and future developments in the Britest approach with the needs of the process industries seeking to respond positively to climate change.
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BatchSafe - a new tool for process safety screening
BatchSafe - a new tool for process safety screening
Britest is delighted to announce the launch of a newly developed safety screening tool for solvent based batch reactions. Exclusively available to registered Britest Advocates, BatchSafe is an easy to use spreadsheet based utility that enables the user to rapidly separate combinations of reaction and operating conditions that lie within a conservative basis of safe operation from those that require additional assessment and study as a prelude to scale-up.
Batch reactions carried out in solvent are prevalent throughout the process industries, for example in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, fine chemicals and flavours and fragrances. It is expected that the tool will be particularly applicable to the needs of multi-product production facilities, which feature frequent change overs between products and new product introductions. BatchSafe compares the physical and thermal effects for exothermic reactions carried out in a range of solvents, including water. Some simple, conservative safe limits are proposed, and the tool can be useful to help identify better, safer operating conditions leading to more robust processes.
Registered Britest Advocates can download the tool and full supporting documentation on how to use it and interpret its output from the exclusive members area of our website.
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Plant Changeover and Cleaning webinar
Free webinar - Join Britest's Rob Peeling on Thursday 10th February at 1400 GMT as he reflects on opportunities to improve efficiency in process plant cleaning at changeovers
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FACES OF BRITEST
At the core of Britest is a team of dedicated support specialists. Experts in Britest tools and study methods, they are also skilled technical facilitators, communicators, and mentors - in short all the back up your development and manufacturing teams need to maximise the benefits.
John Henderson - Technical Communications Specialist
An experienced industrial chemist, consultant and trainer, equally fascinated by people and processes, John brings bring a personable and flexible
Martin Edwards - Senior Innovation Specialist
An organic chemist by trade, Martin has worked across a number of Britest's innovation projects, and is especially skilled at turning ideas into