Join us at the MSU Bioeconomy Institute in Holland, Mich.,
for a week-long, hands-on, chemical process
scale-up workshop

May 14-18, 2018

You will have the opportunity to learn from
the institute’s chemical industry veterans…

The workshop will familiarize you with the transitional issues encountered in moving a chemical process from the laboratory bench to a chemical plant. It includes:

• chemical plant equipment,
• process safety management (“PSM”; see 29 CFR 1910.119),
• environmental regulations and waste management,
• chemical process batch record preparation,
• scale-up process economics,
• chemical testing of raw materials, intermediates, and products, and
• case studies and “war stories.”

About the Facility

The MSU Bioeconomy Institute is home to extensive chemical laboratories plus a scale-up plant. The plant contains a large variety of glass-lined, stainless steel, and Hastelloy™ reactors ranging in size from 40 L to 4000 L, plus condensers, tray dryers, centrifuges, Niagara and other filters, and a Foxboro computer control system.

Teaching Staff

Former Pfizer staff with 100+ years of total professional experience at the site provide attendees with the operational perspectives of industrial chemists, chemical engineers, environmental/safety personnel, and plant operators.

Option 1 – Noncredit

• Cost: $695 (student or teacher: $495); participants will be invoiced.
• The workshop includes lunch each day; daily transportation not included. 
• Students are responsible for their own lodging (call 517-432-4499 for information on reserved rooms nearby) and transportation.

Option 2 – Credit (4 credit hours)

• Current Michigan State University students may register for credit: CEM 890, Section 701
• The workshop includes lunch each day.
• Daily transportation not included. 
• A housing subvention will be available (call 517-432-4499 for more information).

For-credit registration here.