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View the Agenda at a Glance for the P2SAC Fall 2021 Virtual Conference at this link.

AGENDA FOR SAFETY CONFERENCE

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 (Day 2 of 3)

8:00 – 8:15 Osman Basaran (Professor of ChE and Academic Director of P2SAC): Welcome, overview and agenda

8:15 – 8:45 Ray Mentzer (Professor of ChE and Executive Director of P2SAC): Welcome and overview of P2SAC research and teaching activities

8:45 – 9:15 Fareed Sayeed (Lilly): The use of quantum chemical calculations for thermal hazard assessments

9:15 – 9:45 Connor Barrett and Jeff Sperry (Vertex): Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes – a rising process safety challenge

9:45 – 10:15 Prasad Goteti (Honeywell): Connected process plants to improve safety in the digital world

10:15 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 11:00 Bryan Boudouris (Professor of ChE, Purdue): Low-power, low-cost gas sensors with high specificity for hydrogen gas

11:00 – 11:30 Erdem Arslan (Air Products): Reliability availability and maintainability (RAM) studies for industrial plants design and optimization

11:30 – 12:00 Abe Schuitman (Corteve): Sustainability metrics for small molecule development

12:00 – 12:30 Laurence Pearlman (Marsh): Using elements of safety culture as a predictor of process safety outcomes

12:30 – 1:15 Lunch

1:15 – 1:45 Brett Savoie (Professor of ChE): Quantum chemical prediction of molecular thermodynamics to assess reaction safety and scale-up

1:45 – 2:15 Katherine Young (UG) et al. (Purdue): Experimental versus predicted heats of reaction for some common reaction types in pharma industry

2:15 – 2:45 Vilas Pol (Professor of ChE): Battery safety

2:45 – 3:15 Daniel Valco (Corteva): Thermal instability and associated potential safety hazards of [Rh(ethylene)2Cl]2 catalyst

3:15 – 3:30 Break

3:30 – 4:00 Xuemin Chen (Dow): Industrial perspectives on highly energetic materials

4:00 – 4:30 Daniel Nguyen (ioKinetic): Leveraging the adiabatic calorimetry for optimal emergency relief sizing

4:30 – 5:00 Joe Jakubowicz (UG-Purdue) et al. (Purdue): Tool to calculate LFL and UFL of flammable mixtures with inerts

5:00 – 5:15 Ray Mentzer and Osman Basaran: Wrap up

Upcoming Sessions:

Wednesday, December 8, 2021 (Day 3 of 3)