Session: #38 - Tools and Best Practices in Pilot Plants


Monday, 23 April 2007: 2:00 PM-5:00 PM
Room 340 A (Hilton Americas-Houston)
Pilot Plants (12b)
#38 - Tools and Best Practices in Pilot Plants - II (12B01)
Success and effectiveness of a pilot plant program can be highly dependent upon tools and methodologies employed. This general session on the theme of pilot plants seeks to present views and examples of best practices and strategies for pilot plant programs, including scale-up and scale-down, continuous or staged pilots, use of tollers or outside vendors, use of specialized in situ or off-line analysis tools, or other tricks that make-or-break the effectiveness of the program.
Chair:	Joseph B. Powell
CoChair:	David C. Attride
2:00 PM		Introductory Remarks
2:05 PM	38a	In Situ Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy as a Tool in the Development of a Continuous Process for the Production of Cyclopropylcarbonitrile Norma L. Buchanan
2:30 PM	38b	Real Time Measurement of Propylene Oxide in Polyether Polyols Via Calorimetry Paul Weider
2:55 PM	38c	Ethylene Oxide Hydroformylation in Expanded Solvents Joseph B. Powell
3:20 PM	38d	Safe Use of Microwaves in Chemical Processing David C. Attride
3:45 PM	38e	Design and Operation of a Pilot Plant for Studies on Scaleup, Liquid Distribution, Liquid Holdup, Hydraulics, Heat and Mass Transfer, and Carbon Dioxide Removal Using Chemical Solvents Damaraju P. Rao, Kaushik Majumdar, Srikanth Kandkuri
4:10 PM		Concluding Remarks

Pilot Plants (12b)