Wednesday, March 9 at 5:15 pm

Joint Meeting between the local sections of:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

“Don’t Have a Blast Running a Chemical Reaction” by Dr. Michelle Jones,

Principal Research Chemist, Covidien

WHERE:
Pujols 5 Restaurant
342 Westport Plaza
St. Louis, MO 63146
http://www.westportstl.com/Map.html

COST: $25 per person

Please RSVP to Mike Gentilcore, AIChE Treasurer at (314) 654-4031 or email Mike.Gentilcore@Covidien.com by Friday, March 4th. Attendance limited to 50 persons.

MENU:
House Salad, Choice of Entrée, Cookie & Brownie Platter Dessert

Entrée Choices at restaurant:
Grilled Center Cut Pork Chop, Grilled Atlantic Salmon, Herb Roasted Breast of Chicken
All entrée’s served with Roasted Red Potatoes and Seasonal Vegetables

Complimentary non-alcoholic beverages included
Alcoholic beverages available for individual purchase

Meeting Details

Reaction Hazards represent a safety risk in both lab experimentation and full-scale production. Reaction Hazards include runaway exotherms, decompositions, off-gassing and pressure generation. The presentation will review the common tools for studying Reaction Hazards, including DSC, ARC, ARSST, VSP2 and the RC1. The use of these tools to quantify the desired reaction and side reactions will be discussed. Some real life experiences of reactions that went awry will be highlighted.

Michelle Jones earned a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Ohio State in 1990 under Matt Platz studying kinetics and mechanism of carbene reactions. Dr. Jones formerly led the St. Louis Process Safety Laboratory for Pharmacia/Pfizer. Dr. Jones has an additional 10 years of experience in the field of thermochemistry and process development with Mallinckrodt/Covidien. Most of her development experience at Covidien is in the field of diagnostic and therapeutic drugs, including X-ray contrast media, MR imaging agents and nuclear medicines.