Chemistry & the Economy: 2019 Outlook

On January 21st, 2003, Members of AIChE's Center for Chemical Process Safety had the rare privilege to observe the safety procedures used at the Kennedy Space Center to load the hypergolic thruster fuels onto the Space Shuttle Columbia. Just 11 days later, the Columbia disintegrated on reentry. As details of the accident emerged from the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, it became clear that there were many lessons that chemical engineers could learn from NASA's actions leading up to this tragic accident. This presentation will link the loss of the Columbia to the 2005 explosion at the BP Texas City refinery which killed 15 and injured 180, and highlight six key actions useful to prevent chemical accidents, protect the integrity of research, and maybe even improve your life.

As the “central science,” the language of chemistry is essential to virtually all scientific disciplines. Communicating about millions of known, and more millions of unknown, chemical compounds, in an accurate, digestible, and elegant manner is essential to documenting the reproducibility and transparency of your research. This places the onus on chemists to make their supporting information clear. This webinar will point out various stages in micro and macro chemical workflows where employing integrated chemistry databases, drawing tools, and other “tricks of the trade” will streamline and improve the accuracy of your published research.

This MAVERICK technologies and Rockwell Automation as we explore best-in-class approaches to DCS migrations in the chemical industry. We will focus on how to begin a successful DCS migration by addressing justification and defining scope to gain insights into cost, schedule, and impact on operations. We will discuss: The best ways to justify a project Defining business outcomes Properly scoping a migration project. In these discussions, we will share examples of how we help customers be innovative when migrating their DCS to help enable data-driven operations. Don't simply replicate decades-old technologies; innovate.

In recent years there has been a legislative drive for companies to substitute hazardous chemicals in their products and supply chain with safer alternatives. In REACH, the European wide chemical legislation, substances of very high concern SVHCs are identified, restricted and banned in due course.