Hello,
I may be of help for the needs of your project.
I am a chemical engineering. During my PhD I worked in the chemistry and pharmaceutical fields designing and assaying a transdermal delivery proposal using an acyclovir derivative.
I currently work as a biotech and chemistry consultant and have assisted in building up entire laboratories, methods, proceedings in my company clients. If you need to know the required core and secondary equipment, I guess it may take around 10 h (after the synthesis route is defined) to find the optimal equipment with the technical features that you need.
As per the actual, lab development and testing for a new synthesis route, it may take 80 h of lab tests to get a single product in the lab. The proposed chemical route will be discussed with you previously to the actual development and will take into account economic aspects to devise a sound technical route and an economically route as well. However, in reality, when you try to implement it in your Plant and under your circumstances, it might turn out not as economically feasible as in the expected plan due to unforseeable circumstances.
So, please let me know any important specifications, requirements, important details, concrete expectatons that should be taken into account in order to include them in the work to be done and delivered, and to quote them accordingly.
Let me know any other comment or question you may have.
Best regards
Ruben