Preliminary Program subject to change
12B00 Current Challenges in Process Development and Deployment
OverviewCurrent challenges in process development and deployment covers all aspects of executing process development and deployment, including economic and business justification, staffing, instrumentation and control, automation, data collection and reconciliation, process safety and safeguarding, and technology transfer.
Primary SponsorPilot Plants (12b)
Co-Sponsor(s)Technology Transfer (12c)

Chair

Cawas A. Cooper
Senior Research Associate
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
7201 Hamilton Boulevard
R&D 3, Dock 6
Allentown, PA 18195-1501
Phone Number: 610-481-4075
Fax Number: 610-481-5236
Email: cooperca@apci.com

CoChair

Adam Whalley
P. Eng.
Zeton, Inc
740 Oval Ct.
Burlington, ON L7L 6A9
Canada
Phone Number: 905-632-3123
Email: awhalley@zeton.com
Introductory Remarks
Rude Awakenings in Pilot Plant Operation
David C. Attride, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN
Consequences of Pilot Plant Design Decisions
Adam Whalley, Zeton, Inc, Burlington, ON, Canada
Scale-down Considerations for Pilot Plants and Bench-Scale Units
Joseph B. Powell, Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc., Houston, TX
Planning An Ethylene-Based Complex in the Middle East
Osman Aboul-Nasr, Chemical Technology Center, Fluor, Greenville, SC
Trends in Investment in Ethylene-Based Technology in the Middle East
Osman Aboul-Nasr and Lauren Hosking, Chemical Technology Center, Fluor, Greenville, SC
Studying Water Quality by Corrosion & Scaling Index with Changing the Method of Microorganisms Control
Ehsan Bakhshi, R&D Center of National Petrochemical Company, Tehran, Iran and Fatemeh Abniki, Process Eng.Dept. of National Petrochemical Company,Ghadir Group, Tehran, Iran

Process Development Division - Jointly Co-sponsored with ACS