PROCESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP Houston, March 17, 1999.

PROCESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP

Houston, March 17, 1999

AIChE Process Development Group / Houston, March 17, 1999

•• Group Overview

•• Group Web Page

•• 1999 Fall Dallas Topical Conference

•• 2000 Spring Atlanta Topical Conference

•• 2000/2001 Sessions

•• Action Items Review

•• Summer of 1999 Steering Committee Meeting

•• New Topics/Discussions

AgendaAgendaAgendaAgenda


Structure for Group 12Structure for Group 12Structure for Group 12Structure for Group 12

Group 12PROCESS DEVELOPMENTPROCESS DEVELOPMENT

Area 12aProcess ResearchProcess Research

and Innovationand Innovation

Area 12bPilot PlantsPilot Plants

Area 12cTechnology TransferTechnology Transfer

Area 12dManufacturingManufacturing


Group 12: Process DevelopmentChair: George Liebermann, XeroxVice-chair: Prabir K. Basu, Monsanto

Area 12a: Process Research & InnovationChair: Kamlesh Bhatia, DuPontVice-chair: Ka Ng, U of Massachusetts

Area 12b: Pilot PlantsChair: Mark Langer, SC Johnson Polymer *Vice-chair: John Corn, Ashland

* resigning due to family reasons

Proposed future areas:Area 12c: Technology Transfer

• Cawas Cooper, Air Products• Geatesh Tampy, IFF

Area 12c: Manufacturing

• Ron Mack, Monsanto• Tom Kenat, Kenatech

Leadership Leadership (to the fall of 2000)(to the fall of 2000)Leadership Leadership (to the fall of 2000)(to the fall of 2000)


Draft #1 : www.pd-aiche.comDraft #1 : www.pd-aiche.comDraft #2 : www.pd-aiche.com/tempDraft #2 : www.pd-aiche.com/temp

•• Sponsorship: so far, SC Johnson, Rohm & Haas, Xerox

•• Gate keeper team:

•• AIChE connect button

•• Key words for browsers ?

•• Contacts :

Programming; New members; Networking; Benchmarking;

Suggestions - Information ?

•• Resource facilitator : expertise - ask the expert, be an expert, company

links ?

Group Web PageGroup Web PageGroup Web PageGroup Web Page


•• Sessions base allocation increase request to AIChE - DONE

Approved, 4 sessions at Annual (Fall ) Meetings, start:

LA2000

•• Initiate separate area meetings: - DONE `Started in MB1998: PR&I, PP and TT

Houston1999 : PR&I, PP, TA and MHouston1999 : PR&I, PP, TA and M

•• Academia Participation Enhancement - TBD- List of Universities active in Process Research - K. Ng- Support from Education Group/ Academia in

consultancy - K. Ng, G. Tampy

•• Corporate Sponsorship - TBD

- G. Tampy, K. Ng, A. Leviton•• New Areas Development - Ongoing

- C. Cooper, G. Tampy- R. Mack, T. Kenat

1998 New York 1998 New York Steering Committee Action ItemsSteering Committee Action Items



•• Benchmarking - TBD - A. Leviton

•• Atlanta2000 Mini Topical - DONE - S. Dudley

•• Next steering Committee - PlannedToronto, July 23, 99

- G. Liebermann




1999 Dallas 1999 Dallas Topical ConferenceTopical Conference

1999 Dallas 1999 Dallas Topical ConferenceTopical Conference


2000 Atlanta 2000 Atlanta Topical ConferenceTopical Conference

2000 Atlanta 2000 Atlanta Topical ConferenceTopical Conference


2000 (Fall) LA 2000 (Fall) LA 2001 (Spring) Hoston, (Fall) Reno 2001 (Spring) Hoston, (Fall) Reno

2000 (Fall) LA 2000 (Fall) LA 2001 (Spring) Hoston, (Fall) Reno 2001 (Spring) Hoston, (Fall) Reno


•• Annual Summer Steering Committee Meeting.

G. Liebermann to host the next meeting at Xerox ,Toronto

on July 23, 1999

•• Potential session chairs / co-chairs and session titles to be identified

before the committee meeting by the Area Chairs/ Vice-Chairs to streamline to

selection process, final decission at the Area/Subcommittee meetings

•• Explore joint sessions with a principally academic group, e.g., Reaction

Engineering

•• Post information about Group 12 on the AIChE website (GL/JC)

•• Consider programming a joint session with other AIChE groups to gain

wider exposure - run a question and answer session, or “ask the Expert”.

Consider a panel discussion or a tutorial.

Ongoing Action Items (1)Ongoing Action Items (1)Ongoing Action Items (1)Ongoing Action Items (1)


• • Other meeting activities, such as benchmarking, where people talk

about their organization, or round table discussions on specific topics will

continue

•• Continue with: - benchmarking

- visits to member’s facility

(during Conferences or Steering Committee Meetings)

- networking (Process Development Committee, dinner)

- round table discussion

surveys of attendees to ask them what they want from a Group 12 session

Ongoing Action Items (2)Ongoing Action Items (2)Ongoing Action Items (2)Ongoing Action Items (2)

GROUP 12 MATTERS

Discussions / Action Items

New Orleans, March 10, 1998

Scale-up Education and Experimentation in Universities and Industry Pilot Plant Concepts and Facilities in University Labs Unit Operations Labs in Universities Industry-University Collaboration in Process Development

Use of Modeling and Simulation in Process Design Experimental Approaches in Process Development Process Development in the Pharmaceutical Chemical Business Contract R&D Shortening Product Development Cycle Time Chemists and Chemical Engineers

Role of Chemical Engineers in the Pilot Plant Pilot Plants in the 21st Century Pilot Plants for Unique Unit Operations Transfer of Technology from Laboratory to the Pilot Plant Separation Processes in the Pilot Plant

Resources Sharing in Pilot Plants Analytical Support of Pilot Plants Process Control and Data Acquisition in Pilot Plants Polymerization Pilot Plants Case Histories of . . . In Pilot Plants Pharmaceutical Pilot Plants

Tentative Session Titles for the FutureTentative Session Titles for the FutureTentative Session Titles for the FutureTentative Session Titles for the Future

November 19, 1997

PROCESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP Houston, March 17, 1999.

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