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The Center for Professional Advancement, Houston, TX
February 6-8, 2008
Who Should Attend
This comprehensive course is intended for professionals in the pharmaceutical, chemical, petroleum, and instrumentation industries, including:- Process and analytical chemists
- Process control specialists
- Chemical engineers
- Manufacturing and quality improvement managers
- Sales or service engineers
- Instrumentation engineers
Description
Online chemical process analysis is a rapidly evolving technology offering large potential savings in energy costs, reduction of offgrade production, efficient facilities employment, improved safety, and better quality. In addition, an in-situ analyzer in a pilot facility can help to tune processes and speed scaleup. On the other hand, the wrong analyzer or a problematic installation can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars with no gain. It is important that informed decisions be made on the purchase and installation of these instruments. This three-day course will provide an overview of some of the most important of the currently available technologies, how they compare, where they might be employed, example applications, and what is needed to achieve a successful installation. Calibration issues, spectral interpretations, and comparison with laboratory values, will be covered and examples given. Many other types of analyzers, such as pH, moisture, physical property, inferential, acoustic, density and others will also be reviewed, but in less detail than chemical composition analyzers.
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Organized by:
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Invited Speakers:
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Christian Hassell, Science and Technology Group Leader, AMTI
Christian Hassell currently leads the Science and Technology group at AMTI. Until 2005, he led the Analytical Chemistry group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, developing novel instrumentation for realtime in situ analysis. From 1991 to 2000 he was Senior Research Chemist with the DuPont Bioprocess Development Center and the DuPont Center for Process Sensors and Analyzers. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy and holds a PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of Texas.
James F. Tatera, Sr. Process Analysis Consultant, Tatera & Associates
James F. Tatera’s online process analysis experience includes over 27 years with Dow Corning and over 5 years consulting and contracting through his own firm and others. This experience includes both US and International assignments in analytical research, process engineering, project engineering, production management, maintenance management, and consulting for users, vendors, and academia. He is one of the original Certified Specialists in Analytical Technology (CSAT), an ISA Fellow, an active member of the ISA and ACS, and an ANSI/USNC Technical Advisor to the IEC.
Lois G. Weyer; Analytical Chemist with Alliant Techsystems (ATK) and Consultant with Tres-Ark, Inc.
Lois Weyer has worked in the chemical industry for over 30 years, primarily in spectroscopy and process analysis. She initiated the process analytical effort at Hercules Incorporated, and worked on installations of IR, near IR, Raman, UV, and other systems at a number of US and international plants. She earned a PhD from the University of Delaware in 1996, the EAS award for achievements in NIR in 1992 and the Delaware Valley Spectroscopist of the Year Award in 1999. Ms. Weyer is on the editorial boards of NIR News and the Journal of NIR Spectroscopy, and leads a process spectroscopy discussion group in the Delaware Valley.
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Deadline for Abstracts:
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n/a
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Registration:
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Please click here for registration information.
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E-mail:
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info@cfpa.com
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