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Practical Process Development

Course Outline:

1. Introduction

2. Various Stages of Process Development 

• Various stages and their interactions 

• Clear objective for each stage 

3. Interactions among Modeling/Experimental Work/Synthesis 

• Process development - A "detective" exercise 

• Searching for clues - Experimental work 

• Creation of hypothesis - Synthesis 

• Analysis of scenarios - Modeling 

4. Workflow 

• Workflow for new process 

• Workflow for retrofit 

5. Important Elements in Experimental Work 

• Reproducibility 

• Analytical methods 

6. Important Elements in Process Synthesis 

• Patent position 

• Cost analysis 

• Understanding the limitation 

• Generation and evaluation of alternatives 

7. Important Elements in Modeling

• Modeling for the appropriate level of complexity 

• Estimation of parameters 

• Design of experiments 

• Optimization

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