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PROCESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP At the beginning….

PROCESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP At the beginning…. Houston, TX, January 29, 2000. Group 12 Recent History (1990’s). Group 12: Engineering Area 12a: Pilot Plants • No other programming area in the group • Two Sessions in Annual and National Meetings

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PROCESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP At the beginning….

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  1. PROCESS DEVELOPMENT GROUP At the beginning…. Houston, TX, January 29, 2000

  2. Group 12 Recent History (1990’s) Group 12: Engineering Area 12a: Pilot Plants •No other programming area in the group • Two Sessions in Annual and National Meetings • Pilot Plant Committee/Area scope was broadened • General sense of need to expand beyond Pilot Plants - upstream / downstream of Process Development activities - University contributions

  3. Proposal for Rearrangement of Group 12 • •At the November ‘96 Chicago Committee Meeting, Prabir Basu • proposed to change the name of the group and to create new areas: • - The Committee agreed to propose to AIChE to change the group name from EngineeringtoProcess Development • - New areas were proposed and discussed • •The proposal was submitted to the AIChE National Program Committee (J. Cramer) and subsequently was approved by EBPC (Executive Board of Program Committee)

  4. Proposed Structure for Group 12 • •At the March ‘97 Houston Committee Meeting, the new structure of the group was agreed upon: • •It was agreed that in addition to the Pilot Plant Area (now 12b), Area 12a (Process Research and Innovation) will be activated immediately. Group 12 PROCESS DEVELOPMENT Area 12a Process Research and Innovation Area 12b Pilot Plants Area 12c Technology Transfer Area 12d Manufacturing

  5. First Group Steering Committee Meeting, Chicago, July 18, 1997 OBJECTIVE To propose directions for the newly established Process Development Group within the AIChE National Programming Committee. PARTICIPANTS Prabir Basu (Searle)Cawas Cooper (Air Products)John Corn (Ashland)Joe Cramer (AIChE)Bob Duggal (Ethyl)Dave Edwards (Zeton)Juergen Holzhauer (Amoco)Mark Langer (SC Johnson)George Liebermann (Xerox)Rich Palluzi (Exxon)

  6. Key People AIChE Rrogramming Joe Cramer EBPC (T. Anderson, D. Dorland, D. Griffith, S. Kim, D. Rosenthal) Jeff Wood, Mike Malone “The old guard” Rich Paluzzi (Exxon) Shiah Cherney (Chevron) The Transition Leadership Prabir Basu (Monsanto) Kamlesh Bhatia (DuPont) Cawas Cooper (Air Products)John Corn (Ashland) Mark Langer (S.C. Johnson) George Liebermann (Xerox)Ron Mack (Monsanto) K. Ng (U of Mass)

  7. Group 12 Sessions at Annual and National Meetings Recent years (Pilot Plants) 2 sessions Nov. ’97 (Los Angeles) 2 sessions 1 poster session (no allocation) March ’98 (New Orleans) 3 sessions (1 extra allocation) 3 sessions (1 extra allocation) Nov. ‘98 (Miami Beach) March ’99 (Houston) 3 sessions (1 extra allocation) 8>10 sessions (Topical Conference) Nov. ’99 (Dallas) 5 sessions (Topical Conference) March ’00 (Atlanta) 4 sessions Nov. ‘00 (Los Angeles) Base allocation extended to 4 by AIChE in Miami Beach 98

  8. Current Activities • Programming •  Leadership Structure and Election of Chairs/Vice-Chairs •  New Areas Development •  Web page • Future Committee Meetings • Steering Committee Meetings • Industry/Academia participation • Marketing /Corporate Sponsorship/Quality • Benchmarking/Networking • Area Mission Statement s • Other Activities July 9, 1999

  9. STEERING COMMITTEE MEETINGS •  ‘97 Chicago Meeting was an excellent start • ‘98 New York Meeting move from July 10 to July 24 - created some attendance problems • ‘99 Toronto / Mississauga - best attendance yet ‘00 Washington (AIChE quarters)

  10. Current structure for Group 12 Area 12c and 12d officially started in November 99 (Dallas) Group 12 PROCESS DEVELOPMENT Area 12a Process Research and Innovation Area 12b Pilot Plants Area 12c Technology Transfer Area 12d Manufacturing

  11. Current Leadership Group 12: Process Development Chair: Prabir K. Basu, Monsanto Vice-chairs: John Corn, Ashland Ka Ng, U of Massachusetts Alan Leviton, Rohm and Haas Christine Seymour, Monsanto Treasurer: Ramesh Rameswaran Area 12a: Process Research & Innovation Chair: Kamlesh Bhatia, DuPont, 2 Vice-chairs Area 12b: Pilot Plants Chair: John Corn, Ashland, 2 Vice-chairs Area 12c: Technology Transfer Cawas Cooper, Air Products, 2 Vice- chairs Area 12d: ManufacturingRon Mack, Monsanto, 2 Vice-chairs

  12. Future Actions Reno Topical Conference •Christine Seymour, Monsanto Division ? • Ka Ng, U of Mass.

  13. Dallas 1999 • Topical conference - Major Success • Dinner with invited Speaker - Prof. O. Levenspiel • New Leadership

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