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PROCESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP. Houston, March 17, 1999. Agenda. • 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
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PROCESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP Houston, March 17, 1999
Agenda •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
Structure for Group 12 Group 12 PROCESS DEVELOPMENT Area 12a Process Research and Innovation Area 12b Pilot Plants Area 12c Technology Transfer Area 12d Manufacturing
Leadership (to the fall of 2000) Group 12: Process Development Chair: George Liebermann, Xerox Vice-chair: Prabir K. Basu, Monsanto Area 12a: Process Research & Innovation Chair: Kamlesh Bhatia, DuPont Vice-chair: Ka Ng, U of Massachusetts Area 12b: Pilot Plants Chair: 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
Group Web Page Draft #1 : www.pd-aiche.com Draft #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 ?
1998 New York Steering Committee Action Items •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 M •Academia Participation Enhancement - TBD - List of Universitiesactive 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 Steering Committee Action Items •Benchmarking - TBD - A. Leviton •Atlanta2000 Mini Topical - DONE - S. Dudley •Next steering Committee - Planned Toronto, July 23, 99 - G. Liebermann
Ongoing Action Items (1) •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 (2) •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
GROUP 12 MATTERS Discussions / Action Items New Orleans, March 10, 1998
Tentative Session Titles for the Future • 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 November 19, 1997