US 11,854,670 B2
Running multiple experiments simultaneously on an array of chemical reactors
Leonidas Georgopoulos, Zurich (CH); Aleksandros Sobczyk, Ruschlikon (CH); Alain Claude Vaucher, Zurich (CH); Philippe Schwaller, Duedingen (CH); Vishnu Harikrishnan Nair, Edappally (IN); Joppe Geluykens, Zurich (CH); and Teodoro Laino, Ruschlikon (CH)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Aug. 18, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/995,858.
Prior Publication US 2022/0059192 A1, Feb. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G16C 20/10 (2019.01); B01J 19/00 (2006.01); G16C 20/90 (2019.01)
CPC G16C 20/10 (2019.02) [B01J 19/0033 (2013.01); B01J 19/0046 (2013.01); G16C 20/90 (2019.02); B01J 2219/00038 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00195 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00695 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method for executing multiple chemical experiments in parallel on an array of chemical reactors, the method comprising:
receiving a list of actions to be performed for synthesizing a chemical product, wherein the list of actions corresponds to at least two chemical partial reactions, wherein the list comprises a delimiter symbol separating each of the at least two chemical partial reactions in the list of actions;
determining identical chemical partial reactions in the list of actions;
building a reaction commonality tree of the chemical partial reactions according to subsequent points in time in the list of actions executing a plurality of the identical chemical partial reactions independent of a sequence of chemical partial reactions of the reaction commonality tree only once, wherein each of the plurality of identical chemical partial reactions is executed in a different reactor of the array of chemical reactors, wherein each resulting intermediate product has a quantity required by at least a sum of the related identical chemical partial reactions;
storing each complete quantity of identical related intermediate chemical products in a separate container; and
executing non identical chemical partial reactions according to the reaction commonality tree, thereby using at least in parts the stored intermediate chemical products.