Division 12
Process Development
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
DIVISION (PDD) - - Group 12
Fall 2008 General Meeting at
Philadelphia
Cawas Cooper
Air Products & Chemicals Inc.
16 November 2008
August 25, 2008
PDD Fall Meeting
Slide 1
Division 12
Agenda
Process Development
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Financials and Membership (10 minutes)
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Summarized Reports from Areas (10 minutes)
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Fall 2008 Meeting and ConFex Training (5
minutes)
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New Initiatives and PDS 2010 (15 minutes)
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New Awards/Topical (10 minutes)
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Q’s and last minute preparations
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 2
Division 12
Process Development
Treasurer’s Report
David Edwards, Zeton Inc.
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 3
Division 12
Highlights
Process Development
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Recent Income Received:
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Recent Expenses (October):
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Refund of Spring A/V Expenses $314.23
$1,500 for Research ($1,000) and
Student ($500) Awards
Web hosting $240
Account balance of $30,637.78 as of
Sept 30, 2008
758 paid up members as of June 30,
2008
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 4
Division 12
FY 2007-2008
Summary
Fiscal Year 2006-2007 Ending Balance
$
-- To June 30, 2008 --->
Membership Dues for 2007-08
Investment Income
Fall 2007 Dinner
Spring 2008 Dinner
Fall 2008 Dinner Deposit
Zeton (Practice Award - RP/SC) 2007/08
Pfizer (Research Award - VH) 2007/08
Lilly (Student Award) 2008
NPC (Annette Johnston)
Web Hosting
Food/Drink at Spring/Fall Meetings
Practice Award
Research Award
Student Award
Projector + Case + Bulb
Raymond Rooks - LDC & PDS Expenses
Executive Committee Election
Misc Exp (projector shipping and gift certs.)
Misc Income
Misc Award Expenses
Totals
Income
$
$
$
$
7,274.00
1,542.96
3,750.00
4,150.00
$
750.00
$
$
Expense
$
$
$
$
$
(3,444.58)
(3,780.00)
(1,500.00)
(2,000.00)
(1,000.00)
$
$
(240.00)
(2,156.51)
$
(500.00)
$
$
$
(910.08)
(350.00)
(432.36)
$
$
(922.68)
(17,236.21)
1,500.00
18,966.96
Net
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
Delta
August 25, 2008
Process Development
PDD Summer Meeting
7,274.00
1,542.96
305.42
370.00
(1,500.00)
(2,000.00)
(1,000.00)
750.00
(240.00)
(2,156.51)
1,500.00
(500.00)
(910.08)
(350.00)
(432.36)
(922.68)
1,730.75
23,310.79
Balance
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
$
30,584.79
32,127.75
32,433.17
32,803.17
31,303.17
29,303.17
28,303.17
29,053.17
29,053.17
28,813.17
26,656.66
28,156.66
28,156.66
27,656.66
27,656.66
26,746.58
26,396.58
25,964.22
25,964.22
25,041.54
25,041.54
$
1,730.75
Slide 5
Balance Change FY
2007-2008
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Process Development
Balance June 30, 2007 - $23,310.79
Balance June 30, 2008 - $25,041.54
Net Increase in Funds FY $1,730.75
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 6
Fiscal Year
Information
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Division 12
Process Development
AIChE Fiscal Year is Jan 1 to Dec 31
(Calendar)
PD Division Fiscal Year is July 1 to June 30
Treasurer nominated every 2 years:
- Current: David Edwards (Zeton)
- Past: Raymond Rooks (Praxair)
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 7
Division 12
Process Development
Membership Report
Michael Hill, Hill Associates
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 8
Division 12
PDD Membership: 2002 - 2008
Process Development
900
800
700
600
500
400
Let’s reach 1,000 by 2010
300
200
100
0
1
2002
August 25, 2008
2
2003
3
2004
4
2005
PDD Summer Meeting
5
2006
6
2007
7
2008
Slide 9
Division 12
Process Development
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 10
Division 12
Process Development
Area 12a: Process Research and Innovation
Sagar Gadewar, GRT Inc.
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 11
Current Area 12a
Leadership
Division 12
Process Development
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Chair: Sagar Gadewar, GRT Inc.
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Chair-Elect: Joseph Schroer, CWB Tech.
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Activities Chair: Santiago Faucher, Xerox
Research Center of Canada
Past Chair: Karl Krause, DuPont
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 12
Division 12
Area 12a Summary
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Process Development
5 sessions scheduled for Fall 2008 (2 of
the 5 are co-sponsored)
2 sessions scheduled for Spring 2009
(abstract submissions in progress)
5 sessions planned for Fall 2009 (chairs
have been assigned)
We would like to plan 2 sessions for
Spring 2010 (no sessions if response to
Spring 2009 sessions is poor)
Fall 2010 programming to be discussed at
the area 12A meeting on November 18
(aim to plan for 5 sessions)
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 13
Division 12
Process Development
Area 12b: Pilot Plants
Joe Powell, Shell
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 14
Division 12
Area 12b Leadership
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Process Development
Chair: Dan Pintar, UOP
Chair-Elect: Adam Whalley, Zeton
Activities Chair: David Attride
(Eastman)
Past Chair: Joe Powell, Shell
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
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12b - Spring 2009
Process Development
 Shortcut Methodology in Pilot
Plants
 Chair : Joe Powell, Shell
 Co-Chair : Dan Pintar, UOP
 Heavy oil upgrading, hydrotreating
& refining pilot plants
 Adam Whalley (Zeton)
 Dan Pintar (UOP)
 Dinner to be coordinated Joe
Powell
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 16
Division 12
Process Development
Area 12c: Technoloy Transfer
(NEED LIVE UPDATE)
Mitch Loescher, CDtech
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 17
Division 12
Process Development
Area 12d: Manufacturing
Lorna Oritz-Soto
CRI/Criteion Catalysts
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 18
Division 12
Area 12d Leadership and Fall
Process Development
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Chair: Lorna Ortiz-Soto
Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc.
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Chair-Elect: Shawna Berg
Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc.
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Activities Chair: Jason VanRoeyen
Shell Chemicals
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Development and Operating Histories of Chemical Processes
(Monday, November 17, 2008: 8:30 AM-11:00 AM)
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Chair : Jonathan Worstell
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Vice-Chair : George Liebermann
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Career Development in the Chemical Processing Industry
(Monday, November 17, 2008: 12:30 PM-3:00 PM)
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Chair : Shawna Berg
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Vice-Chair : Raj Sengupta
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 19
Division 12
12d Programming
Process Development
Spring 2009 (Tampa, FL)
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Plant Improvements: Identifying and Prioritizing Work When the Plant
Is Running Well
 Chair : Shawna Berg
 Vice-Chair : Lorna Ortiz-Soto
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Instrumentation: An Engineer’s Best Friend and Biggest Enemy
 Chair : Jason VanRoeyen
 Vice-Chair : Shawna Berg
Fall 2009 (Nashville, TN)
•
Taking the Career Plunge: What the industry wants you
to know about the working world
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August 25, 2008
Chair : Shawna Berg
Vice-Chair : John Worstell
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
Process Development
PROCESS DEVELOPMENT DIVISION
AREA 12E -MICROPROCESSING
R. Besser, Stevens Institute of Technology, Chair
T. Dietrich, Mikroglas, Chair Elect
L. Weatherly, Activities Chair
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
PROGRAMMING REVIEW
Process Development
 Spring 2008-New Orleans
IMRET 10, ≈12 sessions + poster, ≈120
papers
 Fall 2008-Philadelphia-no symposium
 Spring 2009-Tampa
≈6-10 sessions, receiving abstracts
 Fall 2009-no symposium
 Spring 2010-themed symposium
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
Themed Microprocessing
Symposia
Process Development
 Narrows audience
 Potentially reduce
participation/attendance of old-timers
in microprocess technology
 Potentially bring in new participants,
new blood from the subtopic
community
 Could spawn new areas in the PDD!
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
Process Development
Area 12f: Process Intensifiation
Costas Tsouris
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 24
Division 12
Area 12f Leadership
Process Development
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Chair: Costas Tsouris, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory
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Chair-Elect: Hannsjoerg Freund, Max-PlanckInstitut
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Activities Chair: Bora Aydin, Canmet Energy
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Technology Centre
Past Chair: Lawrence Weatherley, University of
Kansas
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
Area 12f Programming
Process Development
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Fall 2008 - Philadelphia
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2 sessions, 13 papers
Fall 2009 – Nashville
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3 sessions
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August 25, 2008
Plenary session (30-minute talks, invited)
Novel processes: reaction, separation
Advanced materials
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
Process Development
Area 12g: Product Design
(NEED LIVE UPDATE)
Michael Hill, Hill Associates
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 27
PDD Fall 2008
Programming Factiods
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Process Development
Process Development Division
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Division 12
11 sessions (session co-sponsored with 4a &
Computational Molecular Science and
Engineering Forum (21))
~67 papers
Pilot Plant Topical
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August 25, 2008
5 sessions (15b co-sponsor on one session)
24 papers
PDD Summer Meeting
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PDD Fall 2008
Programming
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Division 12
Process Development
Saturday (15-Nov-08) Speed Networking - Annette
Johnston, Cawas Cooper, Raymond Rooks, Merrill
Galloway, Dan Pintar, and John Peragine.
Sunday 5:30 to 6:30 PM General Meeting
Monday 5:45 to 7:00 PM Division Meeting
Tuesday 11 to 12:30 PM - - 3 Parallel Meetings
with Boxed Lunches. Areas 12a/c/g + 12b/d +
12 e/f.
Tuesday Dinner at Union League with awards
after Kamlesh's session ends at 5:45 PM
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
Philadelphia PDD Dinner
Process Development
Union League of Philadelphia (Meade Room)
140 South Broad St., Philadelphia
Tues. November 18th, 2008
Guests start to arrive @ 6:00pm
Dinner to be served @ 6:30 pm
Green house salad w/vinaigrette
Choice of main entree – chicken, beef, seafood, or vegetarian*
Cinnamon apple tart, coffee/tea
CASH BAR ONLY
* Guests contacted via e-mail for their entree choices
STRICT DRESS CODE (www.unionleague.org)
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
Awards
Process Development
• Excellence in Process Development Research Award
• Sponsored:
• Award:
• Nomination Deadline:
• Awarded:
• 2004 Recipients:
• 2005 Recipient:
• 2006 Recipient:
• 2007 Recipient:
• 2008 Recipient:
$1,000 & Plaque
June 15
Annual Meeting (Nov).
Michael F Doherty, Michael F Malone
Prof. A. Hrymak
Prof. Richard Braatz
Prof. Volker Hessel
Professor James B. Rawlings *
* to be presented at the Fall 2008 meeting
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
Awards
Process Development
• Process Development Practice Award
• Sponsored by:
• Award:
• Deadline:
• Awarded:
• 2004 Recipient:
• 2005 Recipient:
• 2006 Recipient:
• 2007 Recipient:
• 2008 Recipient:
$1,000 & Plaque
December 15
Spring Meeting (April)
Jack Jubin (Lyondell)
Kamlesh Bhatia (DuPont)
George Liebermann (Xerox)
Rich Palluzi (ExxonMobil)*
Shiah Cherney (Chevron)*
*to be presented at the Spring 2008 mtg
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
Awards
Process Development
• Process Development Division Student Paper Award
• Sponsored by:
• Award:
• Nomination Deadline:
• Awarded:
• 2004 Recipient:
• 2005 Recipient:
• 2006 Recipient:
• 2007 Recipient:
• 2008 Recipient:
August 25, 2008
$ 500 & Plaque
July 15
Annual Meeting (Nov).
Deepak Srinivasagupta
Dimitrios M. Zarkadas
Jie Xiao
Kristin Hecht
Kui Sing (Martin) Kwok *
PDD Summer Meeting
* to be presented at the Fall 2008 meeting
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Division 12
Confex Training
Process Development
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Confex = Software used to set up
sessions
Annette Johnston will do live training
after the Division Meeting on Monday
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
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Confex Training
Summary
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Set up session descriptions and chair / co-chair names
Chairs and co-chairs then receive email and password to administer to their sessions.
Topical permissions are separate from Division
Session chairs:
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Enter “session description” or call for papers when permission granted.
Accept papers, solicit trades to complete session (4 – 7 papers)
Do not reject a good paper; leave in place or transfer to unplaced papers folder
Look in same folder for papers for your session.
When accept papers prior to final deadline, and set up session times
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Process Development
Confex = Software used to set up sessions
Save email and password from AIChE for future referral.
Those with division programming permissions can grant access to others via menu
option.
Process Development Division Programming Chairs:
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Division 12
Remember to include 5 minutes intro and 5 minutes wrap-up time
Division level access = best to combine or rename sessions and trade papers.
Confex idiosyncrasies:
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August 25, 2008
Pop up window opens separate instance of Microsoft Explorer when access paper.
Updates to programming do not show up until 8 AM EST the following business day
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
New Initiative - Alternative
Energy (Rooks)
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Process Development
Promote Understanding of Issues Related
to Alternative Energy
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Education (Approved)
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Symposium
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August 25, 2008
Highlight Alternative Energy to Students
Outreach Student Chapters w/K-12 Institutions
Hand’s on Curriculium
$2500 Contest
Presentations at 2009 Student Conference
Reports and Materials on Web Site
Highlight Alternative Energy to Engineers
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
Spring 2009 Symposium
Process Development
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Highlight Issues Related to Practicing
Engineers
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Energy Sources: Nuclear, Solar, Coal
Energy Carriers: Methanol, Hydrogen,
Biofuelds
High Level Talks w/ Question and Answer
Sessions
 Originally Schedule for Fall 2008 -> Spring
2009
 3-4 Speakers Covering Above Subjects
 Continuing with Follow-Up Meetings
PDD Summer Meeting
August 25, 2008
Slide 37
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Division 12
Process Development
Proposal for New 2009 Initiative
(REPORT AS OF 10/15/08 – NEED LIVE UPDATE)
Lionel O’Young
ClearWaterBay Technology
Thomas Dietrich
Mikroglas Chemtech GMBH
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
Latest Situation
Process Development
Suggested Title:
New energy efficient Process and Product Development
Technologies for high-tech industries
Subtopics:
Environmental, automobile industry, electronic industry,
pharmaceutical and Biotechnology, etc
Venue:
Rotate among the continents
Format:
2.5 day conference (need discussion)
Media:
Need discussion
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
Next Step
Process Development
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Gain approval from AIChE
Within Area 12 and other divisions
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Need additional volunteers to brain storm and
put this proposal in better format
Identify potential partners
Phase 2 - Discussion with interested
parties
Phase 3 – 1st event preparation
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 40
Division 12
Process Development
ChemShow 2009 Initiative
(NEED LIVE UPDATE)
Michael Hill and AIChE
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 41
Division 12
PDS 2010 – Energy Conference
(Weatherley)
Process Development
 Possible Date - 20 to 23 June 2010
 Possible Venues
 Oread Inn, Lawrence, Kansas (Scheduled to be completed next
year)
 Hotel Phillips – more historic elegant atmosphere – Kansas
City
 The Westin at Crowne Center, Kansas City – this is a more
modern hotel with a lot of amenities
 Possible Organizing Committee
 Weatherley, Cooper, Powell, Bhatia, Hill, O’Young
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
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Division 12
PDS 2010 – Possible Sessions
Process Development
 Energy Challenges for Process Development
 Energy Analysis in Processing
 Case Studies - Users
 Case Studies – Suppliers
 Latest Developments
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 43
Division 12
New Awards/Topical
Process Development
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Prior Fluor Proposal(Tony/Osman)
New Pfizer Award Ideas
(Chris/Mary)
Topical (Sal/Chris)
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August 25, 2008
Comprehensive Quality by Design (QbD) to
Develop and Manufacture Pharmaceutical
Products
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 44
Division 12
Planning By Area
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Process Development
Plan to program in three areas minimum
Add sessions as interest dictates
Look at the grid at planning meetings to
determine balance or patterns in programming
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 45
Division 12
Multi-year Plan
Process Development
August 25, 2008
PDD Summer Meeting
Slide 46