What is a Sponsor?
Industrial sponsors of DIPPR® Project 801 [Evaluated Process Design
Data] have all of the typical advantages of a member of a jointly
funded consortium along with a few extra benefits. In addition
to having the latest and best data, sponsors have unlimited internal
use of the DIPPR® 801 Database and help direct the project by selecting new chemicals
to include and establishing evaluation procedures and guidelines.
Sponsor perks include a special sponsor version of the
interactive access program DIADEM—which can produce standard
and custom tables and plots from the Database. DIADEM also has the
capability of predicting physical properties from recommended estimation techniques. The
sponsor’s version of DIADEM currently includes a regression
package, a SMILES drawing tool, a prediction method
add/edit form and many other features that are not available to the public.
All internal software developed for the project are made available
to sponsors.
What’s the difference between “sponsor” and “public”?
Always having the most up-to-date versions of the DIPPR® 801 Database
and DIADEM interface, sponsors have an “insider’s
advantage” of complete access to the project they fund
and help to expand. Although the public versions of the database
vary in the features and data they include, the sponsor version
is always all-inclusive of every type of data and feature available
through DIPPR® 801 and DIADEM. For
example, the current sponsor version contains 2203 industrially important compounds as compared to the public version
which currently contains 2036 of those
compounds.
What are some other sponsorship advantages?
As the DIPPR® 801 Database is quickly becoming the industry standard
for pure component thermophysical properties, membership in the DIPPR®
801 Project Steering Team has significant value in several areas.
As a team, Sponsors enjoy the following:
• 
Selection
of which chemicals, properties, and correlations are included in
the DIPPR® 801 Database and the direction of the project
• Access to the data at least three years before the public
• All documents and
progress reports of DIPPR® 801 and the opportunity to ask questions, make comments
and suggestions about the data, compounds, correlation
methods and estimation methods used in the project
• Data retrieval software
that is much more comprehensive than the public version, enabling sponsors to
obtain accurate engineering data conveniently and
rapidly
• Data reviewed by experts
from sponsor companies as well as project staff, further improving the quality
of the data.
• The opportunity to
interact with the Principal Investigators, data experts, and process engineers
from the other member chemical, E&C, and software companies.
These include some of the largest chemical and petrochemical companies in the
world, small and medium- sized
chemical and petrochemical companies, Aspen Technology, and the Physical and
Chemical Properties Division of the U. S. National Institute
of Standards and Technology.
• A greater understanding
of the whole matter of data collection and evaluation that comes only from participating
in the entire process as opposed to only seeing
the end product.
[Since AIChE is a 501 (c) (3 ) not-for-profit educational institution, your sponsorship
of DIPPR® may be tax-deductible. Consult your tax advisor.]
How much does it cost to Sponsor?
The cost to sponsor DIPPR® 801 varies because dues are based on
the annual chemical sales of the company that wishes to become
a sponsor. Ranging from $7,500 per year when chemical sales are
less than $1.5 billion per year to $30,000 per year when chemical
sales exceed $10 billion per year, sponsorship investments are
significant.
Cooperative industry support has made the DIPPR® 801 database
a trusted resource for Chemical Engineers worldwide and continued
support is needed to maintain the high quality of data. Without
industrial support to fund the review and update the database,
DIPPR® 801 would become obsolete. However, as users and sponsors
continue their support, DIPPR® 801 will continue to expand and
improve
the quality of thermophysical property data in the industry today.
Current Sponsors
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