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The 2017 Kirkpatrick Award
E
very other year, Chemical Engineering honors the mostnoteworthy
chemical engineering technology that was commercialized
anywhere in the world during the previous two
years with the Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement
Award. The nominations for 2017 are now open.
The Kirkpatrick Award has been awarded continuously since
1933. In 2015, Dow Performance Chemicals received the award for
its achievements with Intune olefin block copolymers. Honors were
given to Newlight Technologies for its AirCarbon process; Clariant
for HGM Technology for propylene dehydrogenation; AM Technology
for the Coflore Reactor and CB&I for CDAlky alkylation technology.
The 2017 winner will join this distinguished group and earlier winners
that include milestones such as Genomatica's process for biobased
1,4-butanediol (2013); Chevron Phillips Chemical for significant
advances in alpha-olefins technology (2005); and Carbide & Carbon
Chemical's petrochemical syntheses (1933). The full list of past winners
can be found at www.chemengonline.com/kirkpatrick.
The nomination procedure
To submit a nomination, simply send an unillustrated nominating brief
of up to 500 words to: awards@chemengonline.com. Any person
or company, worldwide, can submit a nomination. The deadline for
nominations is March 15, 2017.
In order to be considered, each nomination should include the following
three items: 1) a summary of the achievement and novelty of
the technology; 2) a description of the difficult chemical-engineering
problems solved; and 3) a description of how, where and when the
development first became commercial in 2015 or 2016.
If you are aware of an achievement that qualifies for nomination, but
do not have enough of information to write a brief, contact the company
involved, either to get the information or to propose that the firm
itself submit a nomination. Companies are also welcome to nominate
achievements of their own.
The selection procedure
After the deadline of March 15, the nominations will first be reviewed
for validity. They will then be sent to department heads at accredited
university chemical-engineering departments, who accordingly,
constitute the Committee of Award. Each professor will vote,
independently of each other, for a maximum of five best achievements.
The entries that collectively receive the most votes become the finalists
in the competition. Each finalist company will then be asked to
submit additional information, such as a description of the technology,
performance data and examples of the teamwork that generated
the achievement.
Copies of these more-detailed packages will then be sent to a
Board of Judges, which will have been chosen from within the Committee
of Award. The Board will judge the entries
to select the most noteworthy. The company that
developed that achievement will be named the winner
of the 2017 Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering
Achievement Award and the other finalist companies
will be designated to receive Honor Awards.
The winner will be announced at the Chem Show in
New York this fall.
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Dorothy Lozowski, Editor in Chief
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