Event overview
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This introductory course aims to help chemists, engineers and project managers understand, value and apply an economic “costing” assessment to chemical development processes, whilst such processes are still under development. It will introduce some general principles and issues involved in economic assessments and explain terms typically used, before presenting the concept of optimisation based on cost instead of yield. After this introduction, several worked examples focussing on different aspects of costs will be given in detail, showing how it can be used to identify which features to focus upon for improvement in early development. Specific benefits will be illustrated in further examples showing how the costing process has helped to direct route selection, improve yields, reduce reagents, solvents, volume, energy usage and waste, and will include some examples with known cost savings from actual production plants across the chemical industry.
There will be scope for both planned and spontaneous interaction (Q&A).
This course will be delivered online through one live session, on the following dates and times:
PDT: 6.30am-9.30am | CDT: 8.30am-11.30am | EDT: 9.30am-12.30pm | GMT: 1.30pm-4.30pm | CET: 2.30pm-5.30pm
– Monday 23rd March 2026
Course Outline
- General Principles and Definition
- Issues – Establishing a Fair Comparison
- Cost vs Yield – Which is Key?
- Detailed Worked Examples – “How To”
- Additional Examples of Benefits on:
– COGS
– Route Selection
– Telescoping
– Solvents and Volumes
– Energy Usage
– Waste and Green Metrics - Conclusions
Who Should Attend
- Process chemists
- Chemical engineers
- Project managers
- Anyone new to costing
What's Included
- One live interactive training session over an afternoon using an online webinar platform, details on how to access the course will be shared before the event.
- E Reader version of the manual please note the E Reader is not printable or downloadable due to copyright (professionally printed versions of the manual are available but at an additional cost to cover postage)
- Course certificate
** Please note sessions are not recorded, nor shared after the course.
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