2025 Spring P²SAC Conference

Tuesday, May 6: Reactive Chemicals (RC) Workshop and Tutorials:

Welcome and short introduction to P2SAC:

• Osman Basaran (Purdue)

RC workshop:

• Steve Horsch et al. (Dow): TBD
• Jiliang He (Dekra): Gas-phase Accelerating Rate Calorimetry (ARC) for Thermal Hazard Evaluation of Gaseous Reactions and the Thermal Stability Study of Refrigerants

Wednesday, May 7: Mini-Conference on General Safety:

• Amy Theis (AcuTech): Ensuring Adequate Process Safety Information for Conducing PHAs
• Can Li (Purdue): AI in process safety
• Tekin Kunt (PSRG): Benchmarking Process Safety Performance
• Timothy Hoff (ExxonMobil): Emergency isolation philosophy
• Bruce Vaughen Vaughen (CCPS AIChE) and Joseph Drago (Marathon Consulting Group): Management of Change Systems: What Does Good Look Like?
• David Drerup (Operational Sustainability): Enterprise Loss Prevention: The Path to Achieve Operational Excellence
• Brian Rains (Operational Sustainability): Improving Operations Leaders in PSM Decision Making
• George Harriott (Air Products): Acoustic corrections to leak detection on pipelines
• Sanjay Ganjam (Kiewit Energy Solutions): Hydrogen and oxygen venting
• Vilas Pol (Purdue): Battery safety
• Nicholas Lenfestey and Jessica Jud (Purdue): The Data Mine:  Solving today’s toughest challenges alongside corporate industry leaders
• Qingsheng Samuel Wang (TAMU): Recent Advances in Process Safety and Energy Safety
• Venkat Venkatsubramanian (Columbia University): TBD
• Tyler Pasut (Purdue) and Wesley Hays (Purdue): Calculation of decomposition energies of organometallics using TCIT

Conference dinner (Wednesday evening/night) (payment required by all attendees): TBD

Thursday, May 8: Mini-Conference on Safety in the Pharmaceutical Industry

• Eric Margelefsky, Tao Chen, and Dylan Aljovic (Merck): Sealed-Cell Photo-DSC for Process Safety Applications
• Zachary Zaccardi (Pfizer): Machine learning boosted first principles model predictions of DSC decomposition energies for early-stage material screening
• Jeff Sterbenz (GSK): Use of Jacketed Laboratory Reactors for Early Phase Hazard Evaluation Screening
• Roderick McIntosh (HEL Group): Experimental methods and apparatus for defining criticality classes
• Jiliang He (Dekra): The Applications of GC-MS in Process Safety
• Syed Tanweer Ahmed and Han Xia (Lilly): Evaluation and Prediction of Thermal Hazards in 5-Members Aromatic Heterocycles with at Least Two Heteroatoms
• Sangtae Kim (Purdue): Flipping the Script
• Alina Alexeenko (Purdue): Pharmaceutical Manufacturing – the Young Institute and LyoHUB
• Rui (Ray) Xu and Aaron Shinkle (Corteva): A Case Study on the Safety Assessment of a Potential Explosive Active Ingredient Molecule: Hazard Identification, Screening, and Determination
• Charles Vietzke et al. (Thermal Hazard Technology): TBD