Chemical Engineering January 2018 - 22

Cover Story
Process Commercialization:
The 2017 Kirkpatrick Chemical
Engineering Achievement Award
IN BRIEF
CB&I AND ALBEMARLE
CHEMETRY
DOW (CANVERA)
DOW (PARALOID)
MICROVI
PRAXAIR
T
he path to commercialization can
be long and arduous, which means
the engineers and chemists taking
the path must have a good deal of
patience, dedication and fortitude. To honor
the efforts of those chemical engineers and
their companies that have sucessfully commercialized
a new process for the first time,
Chemical Engineering magazine has been
bestowing its Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering
Achievement Award since 1933.
The aim of the Award is to recognize and
honor the most noteworthy chemical-engineering
technology commercialized anywhere
in the world during the two years prior to a
given award year. The results for the 2017
Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Achievement
Award are as follows:
Winning Award
* CB&I (The Woodlands, Texas; www.cbi.
com) and Albemarle Corp. (Charlotte,
N.C.; www.albemarle.com), for the AlkyClean
process - the world's first solid
catalyst alkylation process
Honor Awards
* Chemetry Corp. (Moss Landing, Calif.;
www.chemetrycorp.com): eShuttle technology
*
The Dow Chemical Company (Midland,
Mich.; www.dow.com): Canvera polyolefin
dispersion technology
* The Dow Chemical Company: Paraloid
Edge Technology
* Microvi Biotech Inc. (Union City, Calif.;
www.microvi.com): Denitrovi biocatalytic
nitrate removal
2017 BOARD OF JUDGES
Lorenz T. Biegler, Carnegie Mellon University
Richard B. Dickinson, University of Florida
Mario Richard Eden, Auburn University
Chris Hardacre, The University of Manchester
Geoffrey L. Price, University of Tulsa
Nilay Shah, Imperial College London
Michael S. Wong, Rice University
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* Praxair, Inc. (Danbury, Conn.; www.praxair.
com): Oxygen-fired combustion process
with thermochemical regenerators
These companies join the long and distinguished
roster
of
past winners,
which
includes
such milestones
as Lucite International
for
its
Alpha process
for making
methyl methacrylate
(2009); Cargill Dow LLC for its production
of thermoplastic resin from corn
(2003); Monsanto hollow-fiber membranes
for gas separation (1981); Union Carbide
low-pressure low-density polyethylene
(1979); M.W. Kellogg single-train ammonia
plants (1967); Linde zeolite adsorbents
(1961); the U.S. synthetic rubber industry
(1943); and Standard Oil Development Co.
aviation fuels (1939). A complete list of all
past winners can be found online at: www.
chemengonline.com/kirkpatrick-award.
Although the staff of Chemical Engineering
organizes and bestows the award, neither the
editors nor others associated with the magazine
play any role in the selection or judging of
the winner. Instead, the winner is selected by
a Board of Judges (BOJ) comprised of current
chairs of chemical engineering departments
at accredited U.S. and E.U. universities. The
members of the BOJ are, in turn, selected by
over a hundred chemical engineering department
chairs of accredited U.S. and E.U. universities.
It is this unbiased selection process,
combined with a more than 84-year tradition
that makes the Kirkpatrick Award one of the
most prestigious honors that a chemical process
industries (CPI) company can receive.
This article presents more details about
the process technologies honored in 2017.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING WWW.CHEMENGONLINE.COM
JANUARY 2018
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