Sponsored members

The successful execution of this study was enabled by the NSF through CHE-0071887 and a predoctoral fellowship to M. J. E. The Center for New Directions in Organic Synthesis is supported by Bristol-Myers-Squibb as a Sponsoring Member and Novartis as a Supporting Member. Finally, M. J. E. benefited greatly from the presence of Maya Ponte. 

Arrival at the venue of the meeting can occur within 24 hours before start of the Meeting and departure must occur within 24 hours after the Meeting finishes. If attendees elect to arrive earlier or stay longer, any expenses associated with the additional time must be paid by the attendee and may not be reimbursed by the sponsoring Member. 

All relevant information on suspected unexpected serious adverse reactions (SARs) considered life threatening or fatal must be reported to CA in all MS and to the IEC as soon as possible or within 7 days of the sponsor learning of them and all follow-up information within a further 8 days. All other reactions are to be advised within 15 days of knowledge by the sponsor. Member States are responsible for recording all SARs and sponsors for advising all investigators. 

The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointiy sponsor the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which conducts a program for developing worldwide food standards. The Codex Committee for Cocoa Products and Chocolate has developed standards for chocolate (Codex Standard 87-1981), and cocoa powders and dry cocoa—sugar mixtures (Codex Standard 105-1981). As a member of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, the United States is obligated to consider all Codex standards for acceptance. 

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICliE) wishes to thank the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) and those involved in its operation, including its many sponsors whose funding and technical support made this project possible. Particular thanks are due to the members of the Batch Reaction Subcommittee for their enthusiasm, tireless effort and technical contributions. Members of the subcommittee played a major role in the writing of this book by suggesting examples, by offering failure scenarios for the major equipment covered in the book and by suggesting possible solutions to the various Con-cerns/Issues mentioned in the tables. 

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), a directorate of AIChE, was established in 1985 to develop and disseminate technical information for use in the prevention of major chemical accidents. The CCPS is supported by a diverse group of industrial sponsors in the chemical process industry and related industries who provide the necessary funding and professional guidance for its projects. The CCPS Technical Steering Committee and the technical subcommittees oversee individual projects selected by CCPS. Professional representatives of the sponsoring companies staff the subcommittees, with a member of the CCPS staff coordinating the activities of the sub-committee. 

This book is written as the book one wants to read when first starting the study of filtration. This book is intended for the person who has some technical background outside of filtration, and who now wants to "get his feet wet" in this subject This book is also for the "old filtration hand" who, while he has some experience in some special field of filtration, may now want to step back and see a larger view. And it is intended as a vehicle for sorting out and explaining words and phrases that appear in technical and advertising literature. The incentive to write this book comes from the author s experience, as a charter member of ASTM s Committee F21 on Filtration, as chair of the subcommittee on liquid filtration (for 15 years), and as an instigator of the 1986 symposium on filtration sponsored by ASTM. 

The members of the CCPS Equipment Reliability Data Subcommittee wish to thank their employers for providing time to participate in this project those sponsors and members of the Technical Steering Committee who reviewed and critiqued this book prior to publication and those many companies in the chemical processing and allied industries that responded to the Subcommittee s survey of available process equipment reliability data. 

Fortunately for a poor, would-be chemist like Leblanc, France s aristocratic passion for the physical sciences crossed economic, social, and political borders. Intellectuals such as Rousseau and Diderot cultivated the sciences with enthusiasm and compiled encyclopedias and dictionaries of natural substances. Local academies and institutes in the far-flung provinces sponsored chemical studies. Crowds flocked to hear chemists lecture and to watch their flashy laboratory demonstrations. Even the future revolutionary, Jean-Paul Marat, experimented with fire, electricity, and light and tried—in vain—to become a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences. In America, Benjamin Franklin abandoned his printing and publishing business for physics, and in England his friend Jane Marcet wrote Mrs Marcet s Conversations in Chemistry for women and working-class men. 

Cuba, while listed as a state sponsor of terrorism by the U.S. Government, does not provide significant resources or support for the most dangerous anti-western terrorists. Cuba is listed because it provides safe harbor to members of designated terrorist groups such as the Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) and the FARC as well as other fugitives from U.S. justice [47]. 

Scott Berger of CCPS sponsored and supported this project and provided access to the resources of CCPS and its sponsoring organizations. CCPS staff members Shami Nayak and Clare Bennett also provided project support. 

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