Process Development Symposium
Accelerating Process Development for Growth

22 - 25 June 2003
Split Rock Resort - Poconos, Pennsylvania, USA

Conference Proceedings can be ordered form from AIChE (PDF)

Photos from PDS 2003

Schedule
Tabletop Displays
Companies Represented

The Process Development Division is organizing a first Process Development Symposium in Poconos, PA from 22 to 25 June 2003. The goal will be to bring the process development community together from industry (such as food, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, petroleum, and fine chemicals industries), academic institutions, government labs, and equipment suppliers. The overall symposium theme will be Accelerating Process Development for Growth. Domestic and international participants are invited to gather in a less formal setting that will foster learning and open information exchange.

Our current plans are to start the Symposium on Sunday evening with a reception and end on Wednesday noon. Monday and Tuesday sessions will cover one sub-theme each day. Tentatively, these sub-themes are planned around accelerating batch and continuous process development for growth. On Monday and Tuesday mornings, we intend to hold four talks on various topics related to these sub-themes. In the afternoons, free time will be provided for sight seeing and leisure activities where informal networking can go on. Then, we will meet again for panel discussion on the sub-themes in the evenings. On Wednesday morning, we will have commercial vendors of pilot plants, process modeling software, contract services, and other relevant equipment such as calorimeters and on-line instrumentation display their products in "Table Top Displays" and "Overview Seminars".

The symposium attendees should be able to share experiences of colleagues from different industries and learn about work practices that can be utilized after the symposium in their jobs.

For obtaining further information, submitting ideas on program, or chairing Monday/Tuesday sessions, please contact:

Symposium Organizer: Cawas Cooper
Air Products and Chemicals Inc.
7201 Hamilton Blvd.
Allentown, PA 18195-1501
Phone: 610-481-4075
Fax: 610-481-5236

Please join us in making this one of a kind event a great success!!!



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