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Lab Bench to Pilot Plant Workshop 2020

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Due to current restrictions related to COVID-19, this workshop is being postponed until later this summer or fall. Please check back and watch for an email for updates. We appreciate your interest. Join us at the MSU Bioeconomy Institute in Holland, Mich., for a week-long, hands-on, chemical process scale-up workshop May 11-15, 2020 Participants will have the opportunity to learn from the…

Lab Bench to Pilot Plant Workshop

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May 13-17, 2019 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,…