Continuing Education 2011-2013

Lunch Lecture – Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing
Tuesday December 10, 2013
11:30 am Networking
12:00 pm Lecture
1:00 pm Q&A Session and Meeting Adjourn
Location:
3rd Floor
3 Tower Bridge
2 Ash Street
Conshohocken, PA 19428
Price: Non Members $35, DVS Members $30, Students $15
Lunch will be included with registration.

Event Description:
Many of today’s blockbuster medicines are monoclonal antibodies (Mab) or therapeutic proteins produced thru biotechnology. This talk explains in simple terms what these molecules are, how they are manufactured, and why this industry is seeing a major shift to single use processing.
Speaker: 
Bob Bader of Jacobs Engineering Bob has over 35 years of experience in process development and design. He has led the process and engineering design efforts on some of the largest and most innovative pharmaceutical facilities in the world. His experience includes extensive use of single use equipment dating back to 1987. He has led the design effort on several all single use processing facilities which eliminated or minimized CIP/SIP and clean utilities. Bob is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he earned a B.S. in Biochemical Engineering in 1977.
Credit: 1  PDH

Evening Lecture – Introduction to cGMP
Wednesday May 8, 2013
5:30 pm Networking
6:30 pm Basic cGMP Seminar
7:30 pm Q&A Session and Meeting Adjourn
Location:
3rd Floor
3 Tower Bridge
2 Ash Street
Conshohocken, PA 19428
Price: Non Members $35, DVS Members $30, Students $15
Dinner will be included with registration.
Event Description:
Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMPs) for human pharmaceuticals affect every American.  Consumers expect that each batch of medicines they take will meet quality standards so that they will be safe and effective. Most people, however, are not aware of cGMPs, or how FDA assures that drug manufacturing processes meet these basic objectives.  Come out and learn how cGMPs establish the foundation for drug product quality.
Speaker: Sue Schultz
Credit: 1  PDH

Evening Lecture – Engineering Quality by Design
Wednesday December 19th, 2012 5:30 pm to 7.30 pm EST
Location:
3rd Floor
3 Tower Bridge
2 Ash Street
Conshohocken, PA 19428
Price: Non Members $35, DVS Members $30, Students $10
Dinner will be included with registration.
Speaker: Zenaida Otero Gephardt Associate Professor Chemical Engineering Rowan University
Duration: 2.0 hours
Credit: 2 PDH
Details and Bio

Evening Lecture – Spray Drying
Wednesday October 24th, 2012 5
:30 pm to 7.00 pm EST
Location:
3rd Floor
3 Tower Bridge
2 Ash Street
Conshohocken, PA 19428
Price: Non Members $35, DVS Members $30, Students $10
Speaker: David Hardgrove Technical Manager Process Jacobs Engineering
Duration: 1.5 hours
Credit: 2 PDH
This presentation will review spray drying as a unit operation, identifying the key elements of design and the components that comprise a spray dryer system. Applications of the spray drying process will be identified in terms of the required product characteristics. The paper will review the relationship of atomization technique and the chamber geometry as well as the desired product powder properties. Product recovery options will also be reviewed. The sizing calculation of a spray dryer is based in high temperature phychometrics and a summary of the calculation procedure will be presented in the context of a “real world” example. The result will be compared to “standard” sizing metrics.

Webinar – Uses for CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) Modeling Wednesday October 17th, 2012 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDTSpeaker: Bob Moser PE, CSP Duration: 1 hour Credit: 1 PDH The presentation is modeling using CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) and how it can be used in industry.  The webinar will review one CFD model FDS version 5 by NIST.  The common uses of this model are fire, smoke, airflow and heat transfer through objects.  Real examples will be displayed and discussed.

June 5, 2012
Climate Change

Webinar – Near-Miss Management as a Tool to Reduce Business Risk (Including Process Risk) in Chemical Process Industry Wednesday April 18, 2012 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT

Speakers: Ulku Oktem, Ph.D. Senior Fellow, Risk Management Center, Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Co-Founder and Managing Partner Near-Miss Management LLC Ankur Pariyani, Ph.D. Co-Founder and Technology Lead Near-Miss Management LLC Duration: 1 hour Credit: 1 PDH Synopsis: This webinar will discuss how managing near-misses improves company profitability and reduces the frequency and severity of industrial accidents and unplanned shutdowns. The near-miss concept has long been understood in chemical process industry.  However, what has been largely missing is the integration of near-miss management into the culture and day to day operations in a manner that underlines the critical connections between near misses and performance. Too often, near-miss management has been relegated to special staff or company-wide risk management committees, with the result that near-miss identification has become an important part of the post accident analyses rather than a leading indicator of potential hazardous conditions. This webinar will discuss the integration of near-miss management into Enterprise Risk Management with special emphasis on recent developments of its application in Process Risk Management.

Webinar – Process and Building Area Dust hazards Tuesday March 27th, 2012 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM EDT Speaker: Charles Honorowski FPE, CSP Duration: 1 hour Credit: 1 PDH The recent OSHA National Emphasis Program (NEP) has garnered much interest in dust hazards and dust hazard mitigation design. The NEP was promulgated based on recent dust incidents in various food, agricultural and chemical industries. This Webinar will discuss the NEP and its requirements, advances in dust hazards protection, look at NFPA 654 and its overview of industrial dust hazards and how the NEP has started to affect industry. Process systems that handle dust producing materials, dust collection and building systems technologies will be reviewed.

Webinar – Biofuels & Biochemicals Wednesday February 8th, 2012 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM EST Speaker: Ken Rollins CEng, FIChemE Duration: 1 hour Credit: 1 PDH From early enthusiasm about ethanol from corn to cellulosic ethanol, butanol, much development work has been done in fuels – drop in fuel for military and civilian aviation. We have seen significant work in the use of algae for fuels and chemicals. Through the research in genetically modifying organisms such as E.Coli, interest in biologically producing platform chemicals has significantly grown. This presentation examines some of the technologies involved and some of the challenges from a chemical engineering point of view.

Webinar – Rheology & Pumping of Woody Biomass Slurries Tuesday January 10, 2012 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM EST Speaker: Mike Simard PE, Engineering Director, Renmatix Duration: 50 Minute Credit: 1 PDH Pumping slurries, particularly biomass slurries, is especially difficult in high pressure applications and push mechanical systems to their limits. Economics of biomass conversion processes require always higher solids content which complicates pumping further. This presentation focuses on rheology of woody biomass slurries at different concentrations and pumping these slurries to high pressure at both pilot and demonstration scale.

Webinar – Introduction to Green Chemistry & Engineering Friday November 18, 2011 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM EST In the 80’s and 90’s, certain techniques evolved to improve the environmental impact of chemical reactions.  Other techniques were added to mitigate, where possible, the hazards associated with the practice of chemistry on an industrial scale, and together these were formalized, by Dr. Paul Anastas, as the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry. Later another set of considerations were developed by Dr. David Shonnard, and others, as the 12 Principles of Green Engineering. This webinar will explain these principles with examples where possible.

September 29th Webinar – Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Modeling CFD is a type of fluid mechanics that uses computer based numerical methods and algorithms to solve and analyze designs that involve fluid (gas and liquid) flows.  This Webinar, by Bob Moser, concentrates on various real applications of CFD Modeling.  Examples of analysis in process design include mixing within a batch reactor, temperature gradients within a cold room and uni-directional airflow over aseptic pharmaceutical filling operations.