Careful planning of these parallel experiments is essential to maximize the amount of information that can be gleaned from them. The workshop is comprised of five subunits combining lectures and laboratory exercises. The level of presentation is appropriate for chemistry professionals, educators and graduate students. Introduction to Experimental Design . Experimental design is a scientific approach consisting of changes in process factors to better understand a process and to determine how the factors affect responses.
Examples are from industrial case studies.
The laboratory uses simulated reactors to provide participants experience in multi-dimensional factor space. Empirical Modeling Of Response Surfaces . Development of quantitative descriptions of the factor-response relationships is the focus of the second lecture. In the laboratory, participants use commercial statistical software to develop empirical models of the simulated reactors used in the first laboratory. Optimizing process performance and reducing cost is a major component of industrial research and development.