Cumulated knowledge
Coordinator of all specialist technical groups
The specialist technical groups form the core of Swiss Process and Chemical Engineers: knowledge and skills, know-how and innovative ideas are accumulated here. They flow into events, further training and education and projects for the benefit of the members and the entire association.
Specialist technical group for plant engineering
The specialist technical group wants to ensure that plant construction is carried out as cost-effectively as possible for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry and satisfies the latest requirements with regard to manufacturing and the environment. It therefore promotes:
- Exchanges of experience within the industry
- Integral project management and system-integrating plant construction through the appropriate training in schools and further education
- Personal development into interdisciplinary teamwork
- Awareness of the social, economic and ecological responsibility of the plant constructor
- Identification of changes in the local and global environment and the latter’s effects on plant construction
- Notification of the latest technical and statutory changes.
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Specialist technical group for training and education
- The specialist technical group promotes contact between speakers in process technology, chemical engineering technology and bio-processing technology in Switzerland and abroad.
- It is a discussion forum for adjustments and changes to courses, which become necessary following reforms and general standardisations.
- It promotes the exchange of information between universities and industry to identify the relevant requirements at an early stage.
- It promotes relevant careers to students.
Group leader
Wolfgang Riedl
FHNW, Hochschule für Life Sciences, Institut für Chemie und Bioanalytik
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Specialist technical group for automation
- The specialist technical group provides specialist knowledge in further education courses and seminars and arranges visits to new installations.
- It offers a platform for exchanges of experiences regarding systems and components and promotes networking among automation specialists.
- It compiles resources, specialist literature, rules and standards.
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Specialist technical group for biotechnology
- The specialist technical group promotes the next generation in biotechnological research.
- It exchanges information about projects and the latest research results.
- It promotes networks and contacts between specialist fields of interest to biotechnologists and engineers.
- It organises workshops, lectures and site inspections.
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Specialist technical group for energy
The specialist technical group deals with current, important topics regarding energy efficiency.
- Technological developments are presented and discussed.
- Know-how and practical exchanges of experience are necessary for sustainable development in the energy sector, which is to be facilitated by the specialist technical group.
- The energy industry is also undergoing change as a result of the political framework conditions. There is also room for such topics at seminars and events run by the specialist technical group.
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Specialist technical group for Process Analytical Technology (PAT)
- The specialist technical group promotes the aplication of Process Analytical Technology (PAT) in the broad field of Life Sciences.
- It exchanges details about the latest related techniques: on-line monitoring sensors, process control and optimization approaches.
- It promotes networking among PAT specialists, both academic and industrial.
- It organises seminars and conferences aimed at sharing the latest advances in the field
Group leader
Michal Dabros
HES-SO ▪ Haute école d’ingénierie et d’architecture de Fribourg
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Specialist technical group for process engineering
- The group provides the latest specialist knowledge in workshops and presentations to its members who are working or studying.
- It analyses new procedures and systems in close collaboration with universities of applied sciences and other research institutes. The focus is on heat/chemical and impulse exchange, chemical conversion and thermal and mechanical unit operations. It notifies interested members and other groups of findings from these procedures.