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The Center for Professional Advancement, 90 Minute Accredited Online Training
July 21, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (EST)
Who Should Attend
The course will benefit personnel in Pharmaceuticals, Petrochemical, Food & Agriculture, Textiles and Biotechnology Industries, as well as Medical and Clinical practitioners. All facets of these industries will find this course useful, especially those in Basic Research, R&D, Production, QA and QC. Attendees who will benefit from this training are:
• Analytical and Organic Chemists
• Process Engineers
• Formulations Scientists
• Quality Control and Quality Assurance Professionals
• Regulatory Affairs Personnel
Description
This 90-minute accredited training course is intended as an introduction to Near-Infrared. Since the topic is not covered in colleges, many first-time users need to find information piecemeal. The topics in this course cover the basic theory and hardware used in NIR.
With an understanding of what NIR is and is not and what each type of instrument can and may not be able to do, the analyst/engineer/formulator can make intelligent decisions as to whose equipment to investigate further.
After attending this course, attendees will have a better understanding of the range of choices available and the vast number of analyses that may be performed by NIR.
Module 1: Historical Facets
• Brief history of NIR since 1800
• Applications throughout history
• Development of modern instrument
Module 2: Theory and its Implications
• Basis of NIR absorption
• Moieties that absorb
• Hydrogen bonding
• Software needed for NIR
Module 3: Hardware and Potential Applications
• Laboratory equipment
– Grating versus interferometer
– Sampling techniques and devices
– Transmission versus reflectance
– Physical vs. chemical information
• Process equipment
– For liquids: Monitors versus analyzers, Aqueous and
nonaqueous, Reaction monitoring
– For solids: Powders vs. solid samples, Sampling speed,
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Organized by:
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Invited Speakers:
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Emil W. Ciurczak, Consultant
Emil W. Ciurczak has been working with NIR for over 25 years. He is the co-editor of the “Handbook of Near-Infrared Analysis” (all 3 eds.) and co-author of “Pharmaceutical and Medical Applications of NIR Spectroscopy.” He has over 40 refereed publications and over 200 presented papers on the subject. He is also Contributing Editor to /Pharmaceutical Manufacturing/ magazine.
Mr. Ciurczak has been teaching NIR for various organizations (including CfPA) since 1988 in the US and Europe. He has almost 40 years of pharmaceutical experience and has taught various chemistry courses at the college level since 1979. He holds nine patents for NIR hardware and software.
He won the 2004 EAS “Achievements in NIR” award was on the FDA's subcommittee on PAT in 2002. Mr. Ciurczak has worked for Ciba- Geigy, Merck, Sandoz, and Purdue Pharma in addition to working with several NIR instrument manufacturers in his career.
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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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salbers@cfpa.com
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