Wednesday, 17 January 2018


Draft Agenda - Subject to Change

08:00

Registration

09:30

Welcome Address by President, FCS-India Chapter

09:30

Opening of Conference

09:50

FCS India : Stimulating advancement of Flow Chemistry by Chairman FCS-India Chapter

10:00

Introduction of Resource Persons & Memento Presentation

10:25

Group Photograph

10:45

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area


Session 1: Flow Enables Process Intensification/ Session Chair: Dr Charlotte Wiles, CEO, Chemtrix B V, The Netherlands

11:15

Flow Reactors and Process Intensification
Vilas Gaikar, Vice-Chancellor, Babasaheb Ambedkar Technical University, India

11:50

Flow Chemistry: Process Intensification through Microreactor Technology
Igor Plazl, Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

12:25

Continuous Flow Process: A New Paradigm in Materials Syntheses
Anil Kumar, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

13:00

Lunch Break and Networking in Exhibition Area


Session 2: Design and Practice of Manufacturing in Flow/ Session Chair: Prof. Dr. Vilas Gaikar, VC - Babasaheb Ambedkar Technical University

14:00

Flow Chemistry - From Concept to Implementation
Charlotte Wiles, Chief Executive Officer, Chemtrix BV, Netherlands

14:35

Continuous Flow - Our Journey at Dr Reddys
Rajeev Rehani, Global Head- API R&D, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd, India

15:10

QbD in Flow
Gautam Samanta, Vice President - Quality by Design and Process Scale-up, Cipla Ltd, India

15:45

Going with Flow - A Regulatory Perspective
Venkatesh Katgeri, Sr General Manager, Regulatory Affairs (API), Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, India

16:20

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area


Session 3: Reactions and Catalysis in Flow/ Dr P V Srinivas, Head R&D - API, Patalganga, Cipla Ltd

16:45

Sequential-Flow Synthesis with Heterogeneous Catalysts
Shu Kobayashi, Professor, The University of Tokyo, Japan

17:20

Continuous Flow Aerobic Oxidation Reactions using Heterogenous Catalyst
Alain Favre-Reguillon, Associate Professor, University of Lyon, France

17:55

Automated Online Gas Chromatography Method for the Compositional Analysis of Product Stream During the Synthesis of Methyl Methacrylate by C4 Route
Mahabala PS, Scientist, SABIC Research and Technology Pvt Ltd, India

18:05

End of First Day of Conference

Thursday, 18 January 2018


Session 4: Successful Implementation of Continuous Flow Manufacturing/ Session Chair: Prof. Dr. B N Thorat, HOD, Chemical Engineering, ICT Mumbai

09:00

Success Stories and Trends of Flow Chemistry at Industrial Scale)
Laurent Pichon, President, Maison Europeenne des Procedes Innovants, France

09:35

Multiphase Reactions in Flow - Successful Industrial Examples
Vijay Kirpalani, President, FCS-India Chapter , CEO, Pi-Process Intensification Exp. LLP, India

10:10

Applications of Flow Chemistry in Industry and Academia
Ryan Skilton, Research Scientist, Vapourtec Ltd, United Kingdom

10:45

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area


Session 5: Engineering Aspects and Tools of Flow Chemistry/ Session Chair: Dr. M C Sriraman, Consultant - API Industry

11:10

Chemical Engineering Aspects of Flow Hydrogenation
Robert Ashe, Managing Director, AM Technology, United Kingdom

11:45

Flow Chemistry Delivers: Fast Scale Up of Challenging Chemistry
Andre de Vries, Commercial Director, InnoSyn B.V., Netherlands

12:20

Dynamic Continuous Flow Reactors for Industrial Applications
Wouter Stam, Managing Director, Flowid Products BV, Netherlands

12:55

Scalable Rapid Prototyped Porous Reactors for Liquid-liquid Reactions
Simon Kuhn, Associate Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

13:30

Lunch Break and Networking in Exhibition Area


Session 6: Interactive Session

14:20

Flow Spectrum and Interactive Session


Session 7: Diversity of Flow Chemistry and PI Applications - I/ Session Chair: Prof. Dr. M M V Ramana, Head-Dept. of Chemistry, University of Mumbai

15:00

From 'Lab & Light on a Chip' to the Advanced Vapourtec UV-150 Flow Photoreactor
Michael Oelgemöller, Associate Professor, James Cook University, Australia

15:35

Synthesis of Amines, Carbamates and Amides by Multi-Step Continuous Flow Synthesis: A Step towards Enabling Sustainable Chemical and Drug Manufacturing in Africa
Cloudius Ray Sagandira, Doctoral Student, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa

15:45

Coffee Break and Networking in Exhibition Area


Session 8: Diversity of Flow Chemistry and PI Applications - II/ Session Chair: Prof DSr M M V Ramana, Head-Dept of Chemistry, University of Mumbai

16:10

Biotransformations & Microflow Systems
Polona Žnidaršic Plazl, Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

16:45

Flow Chemistry Based Continuous Production of Nanocrystals for Enhancing the Solubility of Drugs
Prem Siril, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India

17:20

Automation toward the Continuous Flow API Synthesis
Ajay Singh, Scientist, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India

17:35

Scalable Continuous Multi-stage Extraction and Separation for Flow
Bhavik Shah, Group Leader, Cipla Ltd, India

17:45

Scalable Continuous Multi-stage Extraction and Separation for Flow

17:55

Dial-a-particle using Continuous Crystallizers

17:55

Closing Remarks by Director, FCS-India Chapter

18:10

Vote of Thanks by MD, Select Biosciences India Pvt Ltd

18:15

End of Conference