CPAC Rome Meeting 2026

March 23-25, 2026

University of Washington Rome Center, Rome, Italy

Utilization of New Processing Concepts to Support the Demand for Sustainable Materials in a Circular Economy, often enabled by Exploring New Reaction Routes for Continuous Flow Processing Aided by Real-Time Monitoring and Control Technology

Overview and Workshop Theme: A key enabler of the move to a Circular Economy will be process intensification which offers much more efficient processing for sustainable production.  Broad meeting topics include:

1.      The Challenge of the Circular Economy – to Achieve a Sustainable Bio-refinery.

2.      Examples of New Concepts to Facilitate Next Generation Processes

3.      Enabling Process Understanding to Enable the Integration of Multiple Unit Operations for Continuous Processing

4.      Solution Providers (Advances in Measurement Science and Data Handling)

Registration: The meeting will be in-person with a registration fee of $800 USD (academic fee $ 500).  Sponsorships are available.

Contact Mel Koch (kochm@mkopt.net) or Nan Holmes (nsh@uw.edu) for additional information.

Rome Workshop Organizers: Ray Chrisman, MK Optimization and Control LLC, and Mel Koch, MK Optimization and Control LLC.

Rome Workshop Advisory Steering Committee: Matt Augustine, U California Davis, USA, Giancarlo Cravotto, U Turin, Italy; Claude De Bellefon, U Lyon, France; Ludo Diels, VITO, Belgium; Frank Gupton Virginia Commonwealth University, USA; Volker Hessel, U Adelaide, Australia; Simone Maccagnan, Gimac Microextruders, Italy; Brian Marquardt, MarqMetrix, USA; Peter Poechlauer, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Austria; Kurt VandenBussche, UOP, USA; Paul Watts, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa