Please, point your browser to the following link to register for the P2SAC Spring 2024 Conference: https://cvent.me/0ARxgq?locale=en-US 

Monday, May 6: Tutorials and select Purdue presentations on process safety and assurance

9:00-9:30 Registration; Coffee/Tea and Pastries

Tuesday, May 7: Mini-conference on safety and assurance 

7:45-8:15 Registration; Coffee/Tea and Pastries

8:15-8:45 Prof. Osman Basaran (Purdue): Kick-off, what is P2SAC, and PhD research program

8:45-9:15 Prof. Ray Mentzer (Purdue): Kick-off and overview of P2SAC activities during the past year

9:15-9:45 Prof. Can Li (Purdue): Interpreting Machine Learning and Optimization Models Using Generative AI

9:45-10:15 John Herber (Process Hazard Management Services):The Elusive Nature of Competency

10:15-10:30 Short break

10:30-11:00 Andrea Schmidt (SparkCognitionSolutions): How is AI changing the safety landscape from reactive to preventive/proactive?

11:00-11:30 Prof. Brian Tackett (Purdue): The opportunity for electrochemistry to reduce reactivity hazards 

11:30-12:00 Tekin Kunt (PSRG): Real Wear-Hands-Free Wearables for Process Safety

12:00-1:15 Lunch served in conference room 

1:15-1:45 Timoth Hoff (ExxonMobil): API 753 Awareness for Projects

1:45-2:15 Greg Nesmith (Dow): New technologies need hazard analysis

2:15-2:45 James Burelbach (Fauske): Adiabatic calorimetry techniques for reactive chemical hazards assessment

2:45-3:15 Laurence Pearlman (SAFETY and Consulting Associates, Inc.): Applying “Life Saving Rules” to process safety – how to drive process safety knowledge, understanding and compliance across an organization

3:15-3:30 Short break

3:30-4:00 David Moore (AcuTech): Challenges in Conducting Safer Technologies and Alternatives Analysis (STAA) studies for the Revised EPA RMP Rule

4:00-4:30 Prof. Vilas Pol (Purdue): Towards Making Li-ion Batteries Inherently Safer and Operable at Extreme Temperatures

4:30-5:00 Bruce Vaughen (CCPS) and Ken Bloch (Consultant): It happened 40 years ago: Why do we keep revisiting Bhopal?

5:00-5:30 Open discussion on industry needs and safety challenges in industry

6:00 Conference Reception and Banquet (PMU East and West Faculty Lounges; included in conference registration)

Wednesday, May 8: Mini-conference on pharmaceutical safety

7:45-8:00 Registration; Coffee/Tea and Pastries

8:00-8:15 Profs. Osman Basaran and Ray Mentzer (Purdue): Welcome

8:15-8:45 Joe Bradley (Scitegrity Limited): Assessing the explosive, energetic & self-reactive properties of chemicals and reactions –working towards a simple, high throughput, 'non expert' tool

8:45-9:15 Prof. Brett Savoie (Purdue): New Computational Tools for Predicting Reactivity

9:15-10:15 Prof. R. Graham Cooks, Christina R. Ferreira, and Nicolás M. Morato (Purdue): High Throughput Mass Spectrometry for Synthesis, Bioassays and Drug Discovery [PLENARY LECTURE]

10:15-10:30 Short break

10:30-11:00 Yamini Krishnan (Corteva): Unexpectedly High Corrosion of Chlorinating Agents with Acetonitrile: Importance of Corrosion Testing for Safe Scale-Up

11:00-11:30 Eric Margelefsky (Merck): An Updated Look at the Yoshida Correlation for Predicting Impact-Sensitivity

11:30-12:00 Lacey Samp (Pfizer): Early Partnering with Process Safety for Route Development

12:00-1:15 Lunch served in conference room 

1:15-1:45 Robert Woodman (Johnson Matthey): Combustible powder product safety data

1:45-2:15 Jeff Sterbenz (GSK): Gas Evolution Analysis: Unexpected Detection & Profile

2:15-2:45 Han Xia (Lilly): A process safety study of D-M-S-O at 20,000 gallon scale

2:45-3:15 Jeff Sperry (Vertex): Bestmann-Ohirareagent case study: Ensuring storage and transportation safety for diazo containing materials

3:15-3:30 Short break

3:30-4:00 Prof. Rex Relaitis (Purdue): Update on Young Institute for Adv. Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals

4:00-4:30 Sai Swetha Sathanapally (Gilead): Thermal hazard evaluation for flow processes 

4:30-5:00 Open discussion on industry needs and safety challenges in the pharma industry

5:00 Conference wrap-up and conclusion

6:00 Informal group dinner (attendance restricted to those who have prepaid for the dinner during conference registration)