essenscia and the essenscia Process Safety Academy launch a brand-new Specialized Course ‘Integrated Safety: from idea to pilot installation’. This 3-day Doctoral School in collaboration with Ghent University offers PhD students, postdocs, and professionals from the industry an integrated approach on essential safety concepts. The focus is on chemical safety in laboratories and the safe scale-up of chemical experiments towards pilot plants and industrial-scale pilot installations. The training includes site visits to Eastman Chemical Company, Bio Based Europe Pilot Plant and the BlueChem incubator for sustainable chemistry.
The activity is limited to 20 PhD students and postdocs to promote hands-on knowledge transfer and people from the chemical and life sciences industry mixed with industry participants.
The program of the activity is divided into 3 days:
- The first day starts with a theoretical explanation of intrinsic chemical hazards and risks at lab-scale, including the relevant research aspects on the REACH regulation to ensure life cycle safety.
- The second day focuses on the reaction chemistry of two pilot plants in the Flemish region, including focus on the upmost important aspect on safety of the pilot plant and influences on the final upscaling.
- The third day treats road maps for chemical process innovation in an incubator towards real-life realisations
The academic coordination will be supervised by Prof. Dr. ir. Paul Van Steenberge (Laboratory of Chemical Technology, EA11, UGent).
- Day 1: Safety in the R&D laboratory (8 am – 5 pm)
- Introduction of the activity and integrated safety, Geert Boogaerts, essenscia
- Safety of chemical molecules in a laboratory environment, Wim Dermaut, Agfa Materials
- Chemical Product safety and REACH applied in an R&D environment, Tine Cattoor, essenscia
Venue: NH Gent Belfort Hotel, Hoogpoort 63, 9000 Gent
- Day 2: Explanation of the process and specific safety features in pilot installations
Edition 2023: Eastman Ghent (9 am) and Biobased pilot plant (2pm – 5 pm)- Processes and Process safety in amine pilot plant, Eastman
- Processes and Process safety in the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant
The lectures will be given by both (i) a young science graduate in the industry together with (ii) an expert.
- Day 3: From idea to industry
BlueChem – Incubator of the chemical & life sciences industry (10 am – 3 pm)- Innovation strategy in the chemical & life sciences industry, Tine Schaerlaekens
- From idea to start-up at BlueChem – on-site
- Presentation and experience exchange with an actual start-up at Bluechem, Dr. ir. Hannes Gemoets and Dr. Koen Van Aken, Creaflow
Venue: BlueChem, Olieweg 95, 2020 Antwerpen
