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Bill Dale, Area 12b Chair, welcomed everyone to the meeting. An attendance list was circulated for those attending to complete. David Edwards agreed to act as secretary for the meeting. Introductions were made by those attending. Minutes from the previous meeting were approved.

There was no scheduled activity for Area 12b at the (current) Reno conference, where there is a Process Development Division Topical Conference on Batch Processing. Elections were held for the three Area 12b leadership positions. With much appreciation for his efforts, Bill Dale (Xerox) stepped down as the Chair of the Area, and Bob Duggal (Ethyl) assumed this position (in absentia). David Edwards (Zeton) become First Vice Chair. Joe Powell (Shell) was nominated for ,and became, the Second Vice Chair (in absentia).

A topical conference is being held at New Orleans by Area 12d - Manufacturing. The Pilot Plant Area 12b sessions selected for the New Orleans conference in Spring 2002 were reviewed. Some of the sessions are being combined, and a number are in a state of flux. The original sessions for Area 12b, which are subject to change, are:

Process Improvements in Existing Processes	Yinlun Huang and Rob Gallogly
R&D, Plant and Corporate Interaction	Jan Lerou and Tom Kenat
Polymerization Pilot Plants	Bob Duggal and David Edwards

One Pilot Plant Area Session was selected for the Indianapolis conference in Fall 2002 :

Process Intensification/Miniaturization in Pilot Plants

David Edwards and Ka Ng

PTP Open	2/2002
PTP Closed	5/2002
Schedule Sessions	5/15/02
Proceedings Closed	7/1/02

A regular programming session will be held at the 2003 Spring conference in New Orleans. This conference was originally scheduled for Houston, but the location has been switched to New Orleans.

New Trends and Best Practices in Pilot Plants - Joe Powell

A Co-Chair is needed for this session.

An Area 12b Topical Conference will be held in San Francisco. The topical conference will be titled "Pilot Plants in Process Development", and there will be 4-5 sessions. David Edwards volunteered to be the topical chair. The session allocations for this topical conference were finalized in Reno. The following five titles are :

1. The Role of Pilot Plants in Process Development
2. Pilot Plants : The Uniqueness of Small Scale
3. Traditional and Novel Pilot Plant Reactors
4. Key Factors in Successful Pilot Plant Design and Operation
5. Pharmaceutical Pilot Plants

Co-sponsoring Session 3 with the Reaction Engineering Division, and Session 5 with the Pharmaceutical Division will now be pursued. Chair and co-chair assignments are due by December 15, 2001. There may also be an Area 12a topical conference at the same meeting.

PTP Open	3/2003
PTP Closed	5/2003
Proceedings Due	8/2003

1. Plans for benchmarking of pilot plants are being developed (Shiah Cherney and Bob Duggal).
2. A co-chair needs to be found for New Orleans 2003 (Joe Powell).
3. Consider co-sponsoring an event with the Mixing Group (All).
4. Consider the benefit of round table panel discussions at the end of a technical session (All).
5. Chair and co-chair assignments are needed for San Francisco by December 16, 2001 (David Edwards).

Future topics were brainstormed at the meeting. Bill Dale encouraged each member to come up with a suggestion, and the discussion went around the table. The following topics were suggested:

• Analytical techniques/devices for pilot plants
• Poster session on pilot plants
• Understanding pilot plant scale-up
• Pharmaceutical pilot plants - regulations and environmental challenges
• Process safety management in pilot plants

A suggestion was made to co-sponsor a session with the mixing group. Another suggestion was made that the session chair and co-chair could run an ad-hoc panel discussion to stimulate participation and debate as the final "paper" of a session. These ideas will be considered for the New Orleans meeting and for all future meetings.

Date/Time	March 10-14, 2002
Place	New Orleans, LA