Process Optimization
Situation: Telescoping of existing process to improve yields and cycle time.
Documented existing process involved a number of steps with low purity levels at every stage and thereby required purification

Solution: Team identified the impurities, characterized and synthesized the same.
Possible reasons for generation in reaction identified and lab experiments run to study impact.

• Alkali input reduced, epichlorohydrin increased at epoxide stage
• Temperature condition increased and solvent recirculation rates increased.