Sustainable (Bio)Chemical Process Technology

The BHR Group Sustainable (Bio)Chemical Process Technology Conference, planned for 27-29 September in Delft, The Netherlands, opens registration: it is expanding to encompass green chemical technology

The BHR Group's Sustainable (Bio)Chemical Process Technology Conference opens registration.

Governments and (bio)chemical process industries recognise that sustainable growth can only be achieved through simultaneous and well-balanced economic, environmental and social progress.

Sustainable process technology that improves environmental performance without imposing extra costs is key to this growth.

When applied correctly it can produce step changes in process performance that are acceptable to society while enabling economic benefits.

This is driven by technical innovation and legislation, in particular the European Council's Integrated Pollution Prevention Control (IPPC) Directive that demands the adoption of "Best Available Techniques".

Process development is stimulated and encouraged by bringing together the very latest techniques and thinking from across industry and academia.

Sustainable Biochemical Process Technology is a new BHR Group International Conference that incorporates the organisation's 6th International Conference of Process Intensification to extend a series that was established in 1996.

In its new guise the conference builds on the success of its predecessors while developing the theme of sustainability and expanding its horizons to include areas such as green chemical technology.

Registration is now open for the conference which will be held in Delft, The Netherlands, 27-29 September 2005.

The conference aims to provide a forum for today's practical solutions and potential ideas from across industry and academia that will become the Best Available Techniques of the future.

The programme has been devised to include the latest information on this wide-ranging subject, including industrial case studies illustrating application of the technology and scientific papers describing application-orientated academic work.

A number of papers bring together co-authors from different industries, industry sectors (operators/designers, suppliers/consultants etc) or from industry and academia to illustrate how innovation in one area can benefit others.

The opening address will be given by Professor Wim van Swaaij from TU Twente, The Netherlands.

The conference is aimed at chemical engineers, academics and other professionals involved with the design and implementation of chemical process plant in industries including: bulk chemicals; fine/specialty chemicals; pharmaceuticals; biotechnology; polymers/plastics; water treatment; minerals/metals; novel materials.

A half-day introductory course will precede the conference on the afternoon of Monday 26 September.

This will focus on the practical application of process intensification technologies and will be given by a selected faculty of top experts in the field including Colin Ramshaw, Andrew Green, Henk van den Berg and Andrzej Stankiewicz.

The course will include updates on the latest developments in process intensification and related business issues including sustainability and safety aspects, as well as recent examples of successful commercial applications.

The conference is cosponsored by a number of organisations from the Netherlands including Delft Centre for Sustainable Industrial Processes, TU Delft, Senter-Novem, DSM, OPCW, TNO, Feyecon, EFCE 660, NPT, and ECN as well as the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the UK.

A selection of papers dedicated to research and development topics will be published in a special issue of Chemical Engineering Research and Design (ChERD), the official Journal of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering.

DSM NV and The Laboratory for Process Equipment, Delft University of Technology are offering delegates the opportunity to visit their sites at the end of the conference.

Visitors will have an opportunity to see the new 7-ADCA facility, described at the conference, at the DSM plant.

The organisers have also announced that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has agreed to provide sponsorship for a limited number of delegates to attend the conference from developing countries or countries with economies in transition.

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